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Red Scare in the Heartland
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Publication
2007-10-01 - University of Oklahoma Press
Language
English
Word Count
71,500 words, Guess
Page Count
286 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL11287084M
- ISBN-139780806138688
- ISBN-100806138688
- OCLC Control Number82471662
- OCLC Control Numberbooksontrialreds0000wieg
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2007004141
- LibraryThing4039197
- Goodreads1291727
Classifications
- LCCKF221.P6W54 2007
Description
"In a raid on the Progressive Bookstore of Oklahoma City in 1940, local officials seized thousands of books and pamphlets and arrested twenty customers and proprietors, several of them members of the Communist Party. All were detained incommunicado and many were held for months on unreasonably high bail. Four were tried and convicted for violating Oklahoma's 'criminal syndicalism' law and sentenced to ten years in prison. The defendants' convictions and sentences caused a nationwide furor and were ultimately overturned on appeal after protests from labor unions, churches, publishers, academics, librarians, the American Civil Liberties Union, members of the literary world, and prominent individuals ranging from Woody Guthrie to Eleanor Roosevelt." "Shirley A. Wiegand and Wayne A. Wiegand share the story of this important case for the first time, drawing on recently discovered trial transcripts, interviews with witnesses and those arrested, documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and other primary sources."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland
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