Men, mobs, and law
Subtitle: anti-lynching and labor defense in U.S. radical history
By: Rebecca N. Hill.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780822342571; 9780822342809
Subjects: Lynching -- United States -- History; Mobs -- United States -- History; Riots -- United States -- History; Radicalism -- United States -- History; Labor unions -- United States -- History; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History; African Americans -- Crimes against; United States -- Race relations -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: John Brown : the left's great man; title: Haymarket; title: Anti-lynching and labor defense : intersections and contradictions; title: No wives or family encumber them : Sacco and Vanzetti; title: The Communist party and the defense tradition from Scottsboro to the Rosenbergs; title: Born guilty : George Jackson and the return of the lumpen hero.