DIGIRENT - Being Red in Philadelphia: A Memoir of the McCarthy Era
Sherman Labovitz
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Being Red in Philadelphia: Sherman Labovitz epub Being Red in Philadelphia: Sherman Labovitz pdf download Being Red in Philadelphia: Sherman Labovitz pdf file Being Red in Philadelphia: Sherman Labovitz audiobook Being Red in Philadelphia: Sherman Labovitz book review Being Red in Philadelphia: Sherman Labovitz summary | #2739541 in Books | Camino Books Inc | 1997-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.29 x.80 x6.30l,.96 | File type: PDF | 165 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| How Free is America?|By Max Becker-Pos|This book is an excellent exposition of how supposedly democratic governments suppress civil liberties. In the 1950s, at the height of McCarthyism, many communists were harshly mistreated by the American government. They were denied the basic rights that the United States constitution guaranteed them. The book's author, Sherman Labo|About the Author|SHERMAN LABOVITZ left the Communist Party in 1957. He became a college professor and established a program in social work at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. When he retired in 1994, he was named the college's first professor emeritus
In July 1953, nine Philadelphia men were arrested and charged with violating the Smith Act of 1940. At the time, this piece of legislation--which prohibits citizens from advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government by any means--was being used as the basis of Senator Joseph McCarthy's campaign to expose and punish any behavior that could be construed as subversive or dangerous to the government. McCarthy particularly took aim against avowed or suspected communists--...
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