Men, Mobs, and Law Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U. S. Radical History

Name: Men, Mobs, and Law Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U. S. Radical History
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ISBN: 9780822342809

ISBN-10: 0822342804

ISBN-13: 9780822342809

Edition: 2009

Authors: Rebecca Hill, Christopher Hill

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InMen, Mobs, and Law, Rebecca N. Hill compares two seemingly unrelated types of left protest campaigns: those intended to defend labour organizers from prosecution and those seeking to memorialize lynching victims and stop the practice of lynching. Arguing that these forms of protest are related and have substantially influenced one another, Hill points out that both worked to build alliances through appeals to public opinion in the media by defining the American state as a force of terror and creating a heroic identity for their movements. Each has played a major role in the history of radical politics in the United States. Hill illuminates that history by considering the narratives…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



John Brown: The Left's Great Man



Haymarket



Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense: Intersections and Contradictions



No Wives or Family Encumber Them: Sacco and Vanzetti



The Communist Party and the Defense Tradition from Scottsboro to the Rosenbergs



Born Guilty: George Jackson and the Return of the Lumpen Hero


Conclusion


Notes


Index