Download or read book Communism in the Detroit Area written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communism in the Detroit Area written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communists and Community written by Ryan S. Pettengill and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communists and Community seeks to reframe the traditional chronology of the Communist Party in the United States as a means to better understand the change that occurred in community activism in the mid-twentieth century. Ryan Pettengill argues that Popular Front activism continued to flourish throughout the war years and into the postwar period. In Detroit, where there was a critical mass of heavy industry, Communist Party activists mobilized support for civil rights and affordable housing, brought attention to police brutality, sought protection for the foreign-born, and led a movement for world peace. Communists and Community demonstrates that the Communist Party created a social space where activists became effective advocates for the socioeconomic betterment of a multiracial work force. Pettengill uses Detroit as a case study to examine how communist activists and their sympathizers maintained a community to enhance the quality of life for the city’s working class. He investigates the long-term effects of organized labor’s decision to force communists out of the unions and abandon community-based activism. Communists and Community recounts how leftists helped workers, people of color, and other under-represented groups became part of the mainstream citizenry in America.
Download or read book Communism in the Detroit Area written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearings were held Feb. 25-29, 1952, March 10-12 and April 29-30, 1952 in Detroit, Mich.
Download or read book Detroit s Cold War written by Colleen Doody and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on meticulous archival research focusing on Detroit, Colleen Doody shows how conflict over business values and opposition to labor, anticommunism, racial animosity, and religion led to the development of a conservative ethos in the aftermath of World War II. Using Detroit--with its large population of African-American and Catholic immigrant workers, strong union presence, and starkly segregated urban landscape--as a case study, Doody articulates a nuanced understanding of anticommunism during the Red Scare. Looking beyond national politics, she focuses on key debates occurring at the local level among a wide variety of common citizens. In examining this city's social and political fabric, Doody illustrates that domestic anticommunism was a cohesive, multifaceted ideology that arose less from Soviet ideological incursion than from tensions within the American public.
Download or read book A Good American Family written by David Maraniss and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning author and “one of our most talented biographers and historians” (The New York Times) David Maraniss delivers a “thoughtful, poignant, and historically valuable story of the Red Scare of the 1950s” (The Wall Street Journal) through the chilling yet affirming story of his family’s ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication. Elliott Maraniss, David’s father, a WWII veteran who had commanded an all-black company in the Pacific, was spied on by the FBI, named as a communist by an informant, called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, fired from his newspaper job, and blacklisted for five years. Yet he never lost faith in America and emerged on the other side with his family and optimism intact. In a sweeping drama that moves from the Depression and Spanish Civil War to the HUAC hearings and end of the McCarthy era, Maraniss weaves his father’s story through the lives of his inquisitors and defenders as they struggle with the vital 20th-century issues of race, fascism, communism, and first amendment freedoms. “Remarkably balanced, forthright, and unwavering in its search for the truth” (The New York Times), A Good American Family evokes the political dysfunctions of the 1950s while underscoring what it really means to be an American. It is “clear-eyed and empathetic” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) tribute from a brilliant writer to his father and the family he protected in dangerous times.
Download or read book Maurice Sugar written by Christopher H. Johnson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Johnson chronicles the life of Maurice Sugar, from his roots in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, through his resistance with Eugene V Debs to World War I, and on to the struggles of the early 1930s to bring the union message to Detroit. It was Maurice Sugar, labor activist and lawyer for the United Auto Workers, who played a key role in guiding the newly-formed union through the treacherous legal terrain obstructing its development in the 1930s. He orchestrated the injunction hearings on the Dodge Main strike and defended the legality of the sit-down tactic. As the UAW's General Council, he wrote the union's constitution in 1939, a model of democratic thinking. Sugar worked with George Addes, UAW Secretary-Treasurer, to nurture rank-and-file power. A founder of the National Lawyers' Guild, Sugar also served as a member of Detroit's Common Council at the head of a UAW "labor" ticket. By 1947, Sugar was embroiled in a struggle within the UAW that he feared would destroy the open structures he had helped to build. He found himself in opposition to Walter Reuther's bid to run the union. A long-time socialist, Sugar fell victim to mounting Cold War hysteria. When Reuther assumed control of the UAW, Sugar was summarily dismissed. Christopher Johnson chronicles the life of Maurice Sugar, from his roots in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, through his resistance with Eugene V. Debs to World War I, and on to the struggles of the early 1930s to bring the union message to Detroit. Firmly grounded on the historiography of the UAW, Johnson shows the importance of Sugar and the Left in laying the foundation for unionizing the auto industry in the pre-UAW days. He documents the work of the Left in building a Black-labor coalition in Detroit, the importance of anti-Communism in Reuther's rise to power, and the diminution of union democracy in the UAW brought about by the Cold War. Maurice Sugar represents a force in American life that bears recalling in these barren years of plant closings.
Download or read book Communism in Labor Unions written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of Communist Activities in the State of Michigan written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The role of the Communist press in the Communist conspiracy Communist infiltration of Hollywood motion picture industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communist Infiltration of Hollywood Motion picture Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communism in Labor Unions written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communist Activities Hearings Before the Committee on Un American Activities House of Representatives Eighty second Congress First second Sessions written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report for the Year written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings and Reports 82nd Congress 2nd Session written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on with total page 1874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
