123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): American Anti-Communism before McCarthy: The Role of Labor

AHA Session 182

Monday, January 5, 2009: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM

General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen

Chair:

Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago

Papers:

"First Line of Defense": Early Labor Anti-Communists and the FBI
Jennifer D. Luff, University of California at Los Angeles

Labor Anti-Communism and the 1941 Smith Act Trial
Donna T. Haverty-Stacke, Hunter College, City University of New York

Comment:

Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University

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