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Men, mobs, and law : anti-lynching and labor defense in U.S. radical history / Rebecca N. Hill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Rebecca Nell, 1969-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lynching--United States--History.
- Lynching.
- Mobs--United States--History.
- Mobs.
- Riots--United States--History.
- Riots.
- Radicalism--United States--History.
- Radicalism.
- Labor unions--United States--History.
- Labor unions.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Crimes against.
- African Americans.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (425 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This very ambitious study reads the American Left by way of its defense campaigns for a range of left-wing heroes including the abolitionists, communists, anarchists and the Panthers.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613062284
- 9781283062282
- 1283062283
- 9780822342809
- 0822342804
- OCLC:
- 1110272944
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