Remembering Scottsboro
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Remembering Scottsboro
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Author : James A. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009
Remembering Scottsboro written by James A. Miller and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
How one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the United States continues to haunt the nation's racial psyche In 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight of the defendants were sentenced to death--making Scottsboro one of the worst travesties of justice to take place in the post-Reconstruction South. Remembering Scottsboro explores how this case has embedded itself into the fabric of American memory and become a lens for perceptions of race, class, sexual politics, and justice. James Miller draws upon the archives of the Communist International and NAACP, contemporary journalistic accounts, as well as poetry, drama, fiction, and film, to document the impact of Scottsboro on American culture. The book reveals how the Communist Party, NAACP, and media shaped early images of Scottsboro; looks at how the case influenced authors including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Harper Lee; shows how politicians and Hollywood filmmakers invoked the case in the ensuing decades; and examines the defiant, sensitive, and savvy correspondence of Haywood Patterson--one of the accused, who fled the Alabama justice system. Miller considers how Scottsboro persists as a point of reference in contemporary American life and suggests that the Civil Rights movement begins much earlier than the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. Remembering Scottsboro demonstrates how one compelling, provocative, and tragic case still haunts the American racial imagination.
The Greatest Criminal Cases
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Author : J. Michael Martinez
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-03-28
The Greatest Criminal Cases written by J. Michael Martinez and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-28 with Social Science categories.
This fascinating book recounts the compelling stories behind 14 of the most important criminal procedure cases in American legal history. Many constitutional protections that Americans take for granted today—the right to exclude illegally obtained evidence, the right to government-financed counsel, and the right to remain silent, among others—were not part of the original Bill of Rights, but were the result of criminal trials and judicial interpretations. The untold stories behind these cases reveal circumstances far more interesting than any legal dossier can evoke. Author J. Michael Martinez provides a brief introduction to the drama and intrigue behind 14 leading court cases in American law. This engaging text presents a short summary of high-profile legal proceedings from the late 19th century through recent times and includes key landmark cases in which the court established the parameters of probable cause for searches, the features of due process, and the legality of electronic surveillance. The work offers concise explanations and analysis of the facts as well as the lasting significance of the cases to criminal procedure.
Marxism And The Interpretation Of Dreams
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Author : Molly Pucci
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2026-02-03
Marxism And The Interpretation Of Dreams written by Molly Pucci and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2026-02-03 with History categories.
This book tells the story of one of the largest and most multinational communist parties in interwar Europe: the Czechoslovak communist party. Rather than telling a story rooted in later divisions between East and West, Molly Pucci considers the party in a Central European context, shaped by the common experiences of postwar displacement, imperial collapse, economic and social upheaval, grassroots violence, and the uncertain power of revolution. Starting with the party's unique approach to socialism, derived from its Austro-Marxist heritage, she discusses its diverse Czech, Slovak, Jewish, Hungarian, Ruthenian, Polish, and German national groups and unique role in fostering radical emigre communities from across the region. Pucci offers a vibrant new history of how the party's artists, novelists, poets, photographers, lawyers, and journalists made sense of, and sought inspiration from, the socialist experiment in the East. Placing the party's history in a regional, transnational, and global perspective, she provides a multinational, multilingual perspective on early communist ideas, networks, and culture in Central Europe.
Ain T Got No Home
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Author : Erin Royston Battat
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2014-03-17
Ain T Got No Home written by Erin Royston Battat and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Most scholarship on the mass migrations of African Americans and southern whites during and after the Great Depression treats those migrations as separate phenomena, strictly divided along racial lines. In this engaging interdisciplinary work, Erin Royston Battat argues instead that we should understand these Depression-era migrations as interconnected responses to the capitalist collapse and political upheavals of the early twentieth century. During the 1930s and 1940s, Battat shows, writers and artists of both races created migration stories specifically to bolster the black-white Left alliance. Defying rigid critical categories, Battat considers a wide variety of media, including literary classics by John Steinbeck and Ann Petry, “lost” novels by Sanora Babb and William Attaway, hobo novellas, images of migrant women by Dorothea Lange and Elizabeth Catlett, popular songs, and histories and ethnographies of migrant shipyard workers. This vibrant rereading and recovering of the period’s literary and visual culture expands our understanding of the migration narrative by uniting the political and aesthetic goals of the black and white literary Left and illuminating the striking interrelationship between American populism and civil rights.
Fighting Authoritarianism
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Author : Britt Haas
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2017-11-07
Fighting Authoritarianism written by Britt Haas and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Political Science categories.
"This engaging study of progressive youth organizations charts their origins, their quest to fashion an America true to its ideals, and their demise." —Phillip Deery, Victoria University, Melbourne During the Great Depression, young radicals in New York developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of the Great War and global economic collapse as well as other events unfolding both at home and abroad. They worked to make their vision of a free, equal, democratic society based on peaceful coexistence a reality. Their attempts were ultimately unsuccessful—but their voices were heard on a number of issues, including free speech, racial justice, and peace. A major contribution to the historiography of the era, Fighting Authoritarianism provides an important new examination of US youth activism of the 1930s, including the limits of the New Deal and how youth activists pushed FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, and other New Dealers to do more to address economic distress and social inequality, and promote more inclusionary politics. Britt Haas questions the interventionist-versus-isolationist paradigm, and also explores the era not as a precursor to WWII, but as a moment of hope about institutionalizing progress in freedom, equality, and democracy. Fighting Authoritarianism corrects misconceptions about these activists' vision, heavily influenced by the American Dream they'd been brought up to revere. For them, that meant embracing radical ideologies, especially the socialism and communism widely discussed, debated, and promoted on the city's college campuses. They didn't believe they were turning their backs on American values—instead, they thought such ideologies were the only way to make America live up to its promises. This study also outlines the careers of Molly Yard, Joseph Lash, and James Wechsler, how they retracted—and for Yard and Lash, reclaimed—their radical past, and how New York continued to hold a prominent platform in their careers. (Lash and Wechsler worked for the New York Post, the latter as editor until 1980.) Examining the decade from this perspective highlights the promise of America as young people understood it: a historic moment when anything seemed possible.
African American Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
African American Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with African American arts categories.
As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association of America, African American review promotes an exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives of African American literature and culture.
Publications Of The Modern Language Association Of America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Publications Of The Modern Language Association Of America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Philology, Modern categories.
Choice
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Choice written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Academic libraries categories.
The North Carolina Historical Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The North Carolina Historical Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with North Carolina categories.
Remembering Elizabeth Bishop
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Author : Gary Fountain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Remembering Elizabeth Bishop written by Gary Fountain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book interweaves more than 120 interviews with relatives, friends, colleagues, and students of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), one of America's finest poets.