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Drawn from three significant social movements - the labor, Black freedom, and antiwar movements - the interviews bring to life the experiences of Americans who acted upon their beliefs and faced surveilance and brutalization from police or prosecution under laws.
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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 Hormel meatpackers' Local P-9 in the 1980s. Lively introductions by the authors contextualize these personal statements. Those who tell their stories in The Price of Dissent, and others like them, faced surveillance and disruption from police agencies, such as the FBI; brutalization by local police; local ordinances and court injunctions limiting protest; inquisitions into beliefs and associations by congressional committees; prosecution under laws that curbed dissent; denaturalization and deportation; and purges under government loyalty programs. Agree with them or not, by dissenting when it was unpopular or dangerous to do so, they insisted on exercising the precious American right of free expression and preserved it for a new century's dissenters.
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
