Cause at Heart: A Former Communist Remembers
On November 18, 1954, Junius Irving Scales, the Communist Party district organizer for the upper South, was arrested on a quiet Memphis street by FBI agents. Charged with violation of the Smith Act of 1940, Scales spent the next six years ensnared in a legal system that was in thrall to a daunting force: McCarthyism. Scale's case twice reached the U.S. Supreme Court; ultimately, his lower-court guilty verdict was upheld. Scales served fifteen months in Lewisburg Penitentiary before his six-year sentence was commuted by President Kennedy in 1962. Cause at Heart follows Scales from his privileged southern upbringing through the awakening of his…
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Weitere Autoren: Nickson, Richard / Barrett, James (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8203-2785-3
- EAN: 9780820327853
- Produktnummer: 1819563
- Verlag: Univ Of Georgia Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 427 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.1 cm x D3.3 cm 630 g
- Gewicht: 630
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