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The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America

The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America


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Bud and Ruth Schultz's vivid oral history presents the extraordinary testimony of people who experienced government repression and persecution firsthand. Drawn from three of the most significant social movements of our time - the labor, Black freedom, and antiwar movements - these engrossing interviews bring to life the experiences of Americans who acted upon their beliefs despite the price they paid for their dissent. In doing so, they - and the movements they were part of - helped shape the political and social landscape of the United States from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century. The majority of the voices in this book belong to everyday people - workers, priests, teachers, students - but more well-known figures such as Congressman John Lewis, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), Abbie Hoffman, and Daniel Ellsberg are also included. There are firsthand accounts by leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World, active early in the century; Southern Tenant Farmers Union of the 1930s; Women's Strike for Peace, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of the 1950s and 1960s; and the Horm

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Targets of Political Repression in Twentieth-Century America

1. Part One: Subverting the Organization of Labor
Prologue: Attacks on Labor Before the Triumph of Industrial Unions
The Unrelenting Campaign Against the Industrial Workers of the World
Fred Thompson
African American Sharecroppers: Repression as a Way of Life
George Stith
Ideological Assaults: Labor at Mid-Century
Prewar Red Scare: Holding Militant Teamsters at Bay
Harry DeBoer and Jake Cooper
Postwar Tests of Loyalty: Attempts to Silence an Auto Workers' Spokesman
Stanley Nowak
Imposing Cold War Orthodoxy: A Teachers Union Under Attack
Mildred Grossman
The Purge of the Left: Expelling International Unions from the CIO
Ernest DeMaio
A Pittsburgh Story: Two Rank-and-File Labor Leaders and a Labor Priest
Margaret (Peg) Stasik
Monsignor Charles Owen Rice
Joseph (Sonny) Robinson
Epilogue: Cracking Down on New Voices of Union Militancy
The Local P-9 Meatpackers Strike, Austin, Minnesota
Local P-9 Strikers and Supporters: Cecil Cain, Pete Winkels, Jim Guyette, Denny Mealy, Ray Rogers, Carol Kough, and Emily Bass

2. Part Two: Suppressing the Black Freedom Struggle
Prologue: Cold War Constraints on African Americans' Demands for Freedom
Eradicating a Powerful, Defiant Voice from the American Consciousness
Paul Robeson Jr.
The Black Freedom Movement Under Siege
Facing Up to Southern Terror
Walter Bergman
John Lewis
Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
In the Midst of the Storm
Anne Braden
The Crucible of Lowndes County, Alabama, and Emergent Black Power
Johnny Jackson
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
The Assault on the Black Panther Party: The Murder of Fred Hampton
Ron Satchel
Akua Njeri (Deborah Johnson)
Flint Taylor
Epilogue: Voter Rights Revisited
Undercutting African American Elected Officials
Mervyn Dymally

3. Part Three: Silencing Opponents of War
Prologue: Tainting the Antinuclear Movement
HUAC and the Irrepressible Women Strike for Peace
Dagmar Wilson
The Vietnam Era: The War Against the Peacemakers
Berkeley's Free Speech Movement: A Prelude
Jackie Goldberg
Harassing Antiwar Demonstrators
Norma Becker
HUAC, the Police, the FBI, the Courts: Containing an Extraordinary Generation
Abbie Hoffman
Retribution for Acts of Conscience
Daniel Ellsberg
Samuel Popkin
The Shootings at Kent State
Roseann (Chic) Canfora and Alan Canfora
Epilogue: The Heresy of a Modern-Day Social Gospel
The FBI and the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
Jack Ryan and Peggy Ryan
Linda Hajek and Jose Rinaldi-Jovet

4. Part Four: Preserving the Right to Dissent
A Notable Reversal: Holding the Chicago Red Squad Accountable
Chicago Red Squad Targets: Richard (Rick) Gutman, John Hill, Jack Spiegel, Janet Nolan, and Father Donald Headley

Notes
Index

About the Author :
Bud Schultz is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Trinity College, and Ruth Schultz is an independent scholar. They are the authors of it Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America (California, 1989).

Review :
"In northeast Arkansas, they beat the union workers up. They killed some. Peacher, being the sheriff, would arrest union members and take them out and put them on his plantation. And they would have to work for him. It was like a prison." - Sharecropper George Stith, who helped organize the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, 1934; "Throughout the 20th century, the US government has targeted radicals and activists. The Price of Dissent tells that story with unique and eloquent voices - and also documents some impressive and moving battles to expand our freedom." - Jon Wiener, authorof Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI File; "Up until the demonstrations in Chicago, the antiwar movement was spontaneous, decentralized. There were hundreds of groups. We were the ones who had a national strategy - Jerry Rubin, Dave Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, and me." - Abbie Hoffman


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520224018
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Edition: Annotated edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 862 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0520224019
  • Publisher Date: 06 Nov 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 479
  • Sub Title: Testimonies to Political Repression in America
  • Width: 152 mm


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