Author: Eldridge Foster Dowell
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A History of Criminal Syndicalism Legislation in the United States
Author: Eldridge Foster Dowell
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Oil, Wheat & Wobblies
Author: Nigel Anthony Sellars
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806130057
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, a radical labor union, played an important role in Oklahoma between the founding of the union in 1905 and its demise in 1930. In Oil, Wheat, & Wobblies, Nigel Anthony Sellars describes IWW efforts to organize migratory harvest hands and oil-field workers in the state and relationships between the union and other radical and labor groups such as the Socialist Party and the American Federation of Labor. Focusing on the emergence of migratory labor and the nature of the work itself in industrializing the region, Sellars provides a social history of labor in the Oklahoma wheat belt and the midcontinent oil fields. Using court cases and legislation, he examines the role of state and federal government in suppressing the union during World War I. Oil, What, & Wobblies concludes with a description of the IWW revival and subsequent decline after the war, suggesting that the decline is attributable more to the union's failure to adapt to postwar technological change, its rigid attachment to outmoded tactics, and its internal policy disputes, than to political repression. In Sellars's view, the failure of the IWW in Oklahoma largely explains the failure of both the IWW and the labor movement in the United States during the twenties.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806130057
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, a radical labor union, played an important role in Oklahoma between the founding of the union in 1905 and its demise in 1930. In Oil, Wheat, & Wobblies, Nigel Anthony Sellars describes IWW efforts to organize migratory harvest hands and oil-field workers in the state and relationships between the union and other radical and labor groups such as the Socialist Party and the American Federation of Labor. Focusing on the emergence of migratory labor and the nature of the work itself in industrializing the region, Sellars provides a social history of labor in the Oklahoma wheat belt and the midcontinent oil fields. Using court cases and legislation, he examines the role of state and federal government in suppressing the union during World War I. Oil, What, & Wobblies concludes with a description of the IWW revival and subsequent decline after the war, suggesting that the decline is attributable more to the union's failure to adapt to postwar technological change, its rigid attachment to outmoded tactics, and its internal policy disputes, than to political repression. In Sellars's view, the failure of the IWW in Oklahoma largely explains the failure of both the IWW and the labor movement in the United States during the twenties.
Perilous Times
Author: Geoffrey R. Stone
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393058802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era. Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents—Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon—to the Supreme Court justices—Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren—to the resisters—Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger. Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393058802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era. Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents—Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon—to the Supreme Court justices—Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren—to the resisters—Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger. Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises.
Books on Trial
Author: Shirley A. Wiegand
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806138688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806138688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity
Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Free Speech in the United States
Author: Zechariah Chafee (Jr.)
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
A rewritten and expanded version of his seminal Freedom of Speech (1920) that established modern First Amendment theory, this work became a foremost text of U.S. libertarian thought. This leading treatise on civil liberties influenced the jurisprudence of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Louis Brandeis.
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
A rewritten and expanded version of his seminal Freedom of Speech (1920) that established modern First Amendment theory, this work became a foremost text of U.S. libertarian thought. This leading treatise on civil liberties influenced the jurisprudence of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Louis Brandeis.
American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction
Author: G. Edward White
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199766002
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A concise examination of the central role of legal decisions in shaping key social issues explores topics ranging from Native American affairs and slavery to business and home life as well as how criminal and civil offenses have been addressed in positive and negative ways. Original.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199766002
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A concise examination of the central role of legal decisions in shaping key social issues explores topics ranging from Native American affairs and slavery to business and home life as well as how criminal and civil offenses have been addressed in positive and negative ways. Original.
Anita Whitney, Louis Brandeis, and the First Amendment
Author: Haig A. Bosmajian
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838642675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838642675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Criminal Syndicalism and the Law in California: 1919-1927
Author: Woodrow C. Whitten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The theme of this study is the attempt by legislative enactment and judicial processes to define a new crime in California--the crime of syndicalism. Criminal syndicalism is a legal concept, the essence of which is the prohibition of doctrines and activities involving the use of violence as a means of social change. This concept owed its origin to the growth of syndicalist and other revolutionary labor movements in the United States during the first two decades of the twentieth century and became embodied in a series of state laws known as criminal syndicalism laws, the California law being but one of twenty-four similar acts passed during the strenuous war and post-war years of 1917-1922.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The theme of this study is the attempt by legislative enactment and judicial processes to define a new crime in California--the crime of syndicalism. Criminal syndicalism is a legal concept, the essence of which is the prohibition of doctrines and activities involving the use of violence as a means of social change. This concept owed its origin to the growth of syndicalist and other revolutionary labor movements in the United States during the first two decades of the twentieth century and became embodied in a series of state laws known as criminal syndicalism laws, the California law being but one of twenty-four similar acts passed during the strenuous war and post-war years of 1917-1922.
Subversive Southerner
Author: Catherine Fosl
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813191726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
With a Foreword by Angela Y. Davis Winner of the 2003 Oral History Association Book AwardWinner of the 2003 Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights Outstanding Book Award Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) was a courageous southern white woman who in the late 1940s rejected her segregationist and privileged past to become a lifelong crusader against racial discrimination. Arousing the conscience of white southerners to the reality of racial injustice, Braden was branded a communist and seditionist by southern politicians who used McCarthyism to buttress legal and institutional segregation as it came under fire in deferral courts. She became, nevertheless, one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies and one of five southern whites commended by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Although Braden remained a controversial figure even in the movement, her commitment superseded her radical reputation, and she became a mentor and advisor to students who launched the 1960s sit-ins and to successive generations of peace and justice activists. In this riveting, oral history-based biography, Catherine Fosl also offers a social history of how racism, sexism, and anticommunism overlapped in the twentieth-century south and how ripples from the Cold War divided and limited the southern civil rights movement.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813191726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
With a Foreword by Angela Y. Davis Winner of the 2003 Oral History Association Book AwardWinner of the 2003 Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights Outstanding Book Award Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) was a courageous southern white woman who in the late 1940s rejected her segregationist and privileged past to become a lifelong crusader against racial discrimination. Arousing the conscience of white southerners to the reality of racial injustice, Braden was branded a communist and seditionist by southern politicians who used McCarthyism to buttress legal and institutional segregation as it came under fire in deferral courts. She became, nevertheless, one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies and one of five southern whites commended by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Although Braden remained a controversial figure even in the movement, her commitment superseded her radical reputation, and she became a mentor and advisor to students who launched the 1960s sit-ins and to successive generations of peace and justice activists. In this riveting, oral history-based biography, Catherine Fosl also offers a social history of how racism, sexism, and anticommunism overlapped in the twentieth-century south and how ripples from the Cold War divided and limited the southern civil rights movement.