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

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2008 Available online

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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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