In contempt : defending free speech, defeating HUAC / Ed Yellin and Jean Fagan Yellin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yellin, Ed, 1927- author.

Yellin, Jean Fagan, author.

Contributor:

Rajendra, Dania, writer of supplementary textual content.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communist trials--United States--Gary, Indiana--1958.

Communist trials.

Yellin, Ed. 1927---Biography.

Yellin, Ed.

Yellin, Jean Fagan--Biography.

Yellin, Jean Fagan.

Judicial process--Political aspects--United States--20th century.

Judicial process.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (125 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Defending free speech, defeating HUAC

Defending free speech, defeating House of Representatives' Committee on UnAmerican Activities

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2022.

Summary:

"'YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to be and appear before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives of the United States, or a duly appointed subcommittee thereof, on February 10 (Monday), 1958, at ten o'clock a.m. at City Council Chambers, City Hall, Gary, Indiana, then and there to testify touching matters of inquiry committed to said committee, and not to depart without leave of said committee.' So began a decade of hardship for Ed and Jean Yellin and their three young children as the repressive weight of the U.S. government, caught up in the throes of McCarthyism, crashed down upon their careers, their daily household budget, and their relationships to colleagues, neighbors, and their country. In Contempt is a faithful, factual testament to the enduring quality of patriotic dissent in our evolving democracy--and a loving reconstruction of what it meant to be labeled "unAmerican" for defending the Constitution."

Notes:

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472902644

0472902644

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access