Mary Anne Trasciatti

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is one of the most important figures in the history of American labor. This stirring biography traces her personal and political life, foregrounding her commitment to civil liberties as the enduring force behind her worldview and returns her to her rightful place at the heart of the working-class movement.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978817562
• ISBN-10: 1978817568
• Artikelnr.: 71934451

Autorenporträt

MARY ANNE TRASCIATTI is a professor of rhetoric and the director of labor studies at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. She coedited the collections Where Are the Workers?: Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites and Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1          Strategizing from the Soapbox: Free Speech Fights in Missoula
and Spokane
2          The Fight for Free Speech in Paterson, New Jersey
3          War and Civil Liberties: An Oxymoron?
4          From Civil Liberties Icon to Communist Menace
5          From the Little Red Scare to the Big Red Scare
6          The Smith Act Trials of Communists in New York
7          The Struggle Continues: Flynn’s Final Years
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
INTRODUCTION 1
1 STRATEGIZING FROM THE SOAPBOX
Free Speech Fights in Missoula and Spokane 7
2 THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH IN PATERSON,
NEW JERSEY 41
3 WAR AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
An Oxymoron? 73
4 FROM CIVIL LIBERTIES ICON TO COMMUNIST MENACE 119
5 FROM THE LITTLE RED SCARE TO
THE BIG RED SCARE 163
6 THE SMITH ACT TRIALS OF COMMUNISTS
IN NEW YORK 199
7 THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
Flynn’s Final Years 245
EPILOGUE 291
Acknowledgments 295
Notes 299
Index 357