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Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History

Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History

Hill, Rebecca

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20th Century United States HistoryFrench HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 082234257X
ISBN13: 9780822342571
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 23 2009
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
In Men, Mobs, and Law, Rebecca N. Hill compares two seemingly unrelated types of leftist protest campaigns: those intended to defend labor organizers from prosecution and those seeking to memorialize lynching victims and stop the practice of lynching. Arguing that these forms of protest are related and have substantially influenced one another, Hill points out that both worked to build alliances through appeals to public opinion in the media, by defining the American state as a force of terror, and by creating a heroic identity for their movements. Each has played a major role in the history of radical politics in the United States. Hill illuminates that history by considering the narratives produced during the abolitionist John Brown's trials and execution, analyzing the defense of the Chicago anarchists of the Haymarket affair, and comparing Ida B. Wells's and the NAACP's anti-lynching campaigns to the Industrial Workers of the World's early-twentieth-century defense campaigns. She also considers conflicts within the campaign to defend Sacco and Vanzetti, chronicles the history of the Communist Party's International Labor Defense, and explores the Black Panther Party's defense of George Jackson.

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