The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America

The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America
ISBN-10
0520224019
ISBN-13
9780520224018
Category
Political persecution
Pages
480
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Authors
Bud Schultz, Ruth Schultz

Description

Focuses on the activists in three of the "most dramatic, sustained" social movements of the twentieth century: the labor, civil rights, and antiwar movements. Provides an overview and brief history of each of these movements. Activists in each of these movements recall the courage needed to stand up to resistance from the police and the government (from the FBI to Congress and the White House), and the struggle to overcome violence and accusations of treachery and subversion.

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