Men, mobs, and law : anti-lynching and labor defense in U.S. radical history / Rebecca N. Hill.

By: Hill, Rebecca Nell, 1969-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008Description: 413 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780822342809Subject(s): Lynching -- United States -- History | Mobs -- United States -- History | Riots -- United States -- History | Radicalism -- United States -- History | Labor unions -- United States -- History | Civil rights movements -- United States -- History | African Americans -- Crimes against | United States -- Race relations -- History | African Americans -- Crimes against | Civil rights movements | Labor unions | Lynching | Mobs | Race relations | Radicalism | Riots | United States | Radikalismus | Lynchjustiz | USA | Abolitionismus | Die Linke | Radikalismus | USA | Geschichte | African Americans Crimes against | Civil rights movements United States History | Labor unions United States History | Lynching United States History | Mobs United States History | Radicalism United States History | Riots United States History | United States Race relations HistoryGenre/Form: History.Additional physical formats: Online version:: Men, mobs, and law.DDC classification: 364.4/045230973 LOC classification: HV6457 | .H55 2008Other classification: 15.87 | 7,26 | NQ 8340
Contents:
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.
Summary: Compares the anti-lynching movement (epitomized the NAACP) to the movement in defense of labor activists (epitomized by the ACLU), and the rhetorical strategies they used to shape public opinion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Compares the anti-lynching movement (epitomized the NAACP) to the movement in defense of labor activists (epitomized by the ACLU), and the rhetorical strategies they used to shape public opinion.

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