Trotskyists on trial : free speech and political persecution since the age of FDR

Trotskyists on trial : free speech and political persecution since the age of FDR / Donna T. Haverty-Stacke.

The Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal definition of free speech protection in America by criminalizing the advocacy of disloyalty to the government by force. It also criminalized the acts of printing, publishing, or distributing anything advocating...

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Main Author: Haverty-Stacke, Donna T. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2015.
Series:Culture, labor, history.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Freedom of speech > United States > History > 20th century.
Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights > United States > History > 20th century.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Civil rights
Freedom of speech
Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
United States
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Militancy and fear : May 1934-June 1940
  • Dissent becomes a federal case : September 1940-June 1941
  • "Socialism on Trial" : July 1-November 18, 1941
  • "If that is treason, you can make the most of it" : November 18-December 8, 1941
  • Battling the "Gag" act in wartime : December 1941-December 1943
  • "A test of fire" : December 1943-November 1948
  • The ongoing struggle for civil liberties : June 1951-August 1986.

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