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Hate speech : the history of an American controversy

Author: Samuel Walker
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Walker, Samuel, 1942-
Hate speech.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1994
(OCoLC)609136965
Online version:
Walker, Samuel, 1942-
Hate speech.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1994
(OCoLC)622853493
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Samuel Walker
ISBN: 080324763X 9780803247635 0803297513 9780803297517
OCLC Number: 28419843
Description: 217 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Hate speech in American history --
Origins of the hate speech issue, 1920-1931 --
Free speech for Nazis? Hate speech as a national issue, 1933-1940 --
The hateful and the hated: The Jehovah's Witnesses and the emergence of a national policy --
The curious rise and fall of group libel in America, 1942-1952 --
Free speech triumphant: From Beauharnais to Skokie, 1952-1978 --
The campus speech codes: Hate speech in the 1980s and 1990s --
Hate speech and the American community.
Responsibility: Samuel Walker.
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Abstract:

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.

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