Hate speech : the history of an American controversy

The Resource Hate speech : the history of an American controversy

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Hate speech : the history of an American controversy

Title remainder

the history of an American controversy

Statement of responsibility

Samuel Walker

Language

eng

Summary

The First Amendment protects even the most offensive forms of expression: racial slurs, hateful religious propaganda, and cross-burning. No other county in the world offers the same kind of protection to offensive speech. How did this free speech tradition develop? Hate Speech provides a comprehensive account of the history of the hate speech controversy in the United States. Samuel Walker examines the issue, from the conflicts over the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and American Nazi groups in the 1930s, to the famous Skokie episode in 1977-78, and the campus culture wars of the 1990s. The author argues that the civil rights movement played a central role in developing this country's free speech tradition. The courts were concerned about protecting the provocative and even offensive forms of expression by civil rights forces. Civil rights groups, therefore, preferred to protect rather than restrict offensive speech--even if it meant protecting racist speech

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

342.73/0853
347.302853

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

KF9345

LC item number

.W35 1994

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

000088428

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