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

Title
Men, mobs, and law : anti-lynching and labor defense in U.S. radical history / Rebecca N. Hill.
Author
Hill, Rebecca Nell, 1969-
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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Description
413 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
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.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 09-648
ISBN
  • 9780822342571 (cl : alk. paper)
  • 082234257X (cl : alk. paper)
  • 9780822342809 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822342804 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2008041805
  • 40016407451
OCLC
209334338
Author
Hill, Rebecca Nell, 1969-
Title
Men, mobs, and law : anti-lynching and labor defense in U.S. radical history / Rebecca N. Hill.
Imprint
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40016407451
Research Call Number
Sc E 09-648
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