The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America

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