Donna T Haverty Stacke: 2 books

Book cover of Trotskyists on Trial

Trotskyists on Trial

Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR

by Donna T. Haverty-Stacke
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016

Passed in June 1940, the Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal definition of free speech protection in America by criminalizing the advocacy of disloyalty to the government by force. It also criminalized the acts of printing, publishing, or distributing...
Book cover of America’s Forgotten Holiday

America’s Forgotten Holiday

May Day and Nationalism, 1867-1960

by Donna T. Haverty-Stacke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

Though now a largely forgotten holiday in the United States, May Day was founded here in 1886 by an energized labor movement as a part of its struggle for the eight-hour day. In ensuing years, May Day took on new meaning, and by the early 1900s had become an annual rallying point for anarchists, socialists,...
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