Freedom's champion--Elijah Lovejoy
By: Paul Simon ; with a foreword by Clarence Page.
Contributors: Simon, Paul, 1928-
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Lovejoy, Elijah P. 1802-1837; Abolitionists -- Illinois -- Alton -- Biography; Riots -- Illinois -- Alton -- History -- 19th century; Alton (Ill.) -- Biography
Description: In this revised edition of his earlier biography, Paul Simon provides an inspiring account of the life and work of Elijah Lovejoy, an avid abolitionist in the 1830s and the first martyr to freedom of the press in the United States.
Notes: Includes index.
Rev. ed. of: Lovejoy, martyr to freedom. 1964.