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African Americans and the First Amendment

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**The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.** **2020* ** ** CHOICE*** **Outstanding Academic Title** *African Americans and the First Amendment* is the first book to explore in detail the relationship between African Americans and our first freedoms, especially freedom of speech. Timothy C. Shiell utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate that a strong commitment to civil liberty and to racial equality are mutually supportive, as they share an opposition to orthodoxy and a commitment to greater inclusion and participation. This crucial connection is evidenced throughout US history, from the days of colonial and antebellum slavery to Jim Crow: in the landmark US Supreme Court decision in 1937 freeing the black communist Angelo Herndon; in the struggles and victories of the civil rights movement, from the late 1930s to the late ’60s; and in the historical and modern debates over hate speech restrictions. Liberty and equality can conflict in individual cases, Shiell argues, but there is no fundamental conflict between them. Robust First Amendment values protect and encourage demands for racial equality while weak First Amendment values, in contrast, lead to censorship and a chilling of demands for racial equality.

Author

Timothy C. Shiell

Book Series

SUNY series in African American Studies

Format

Ebook

ISBN

9781438475820

Language

English

Pages

435

Publication Date

07-01-2020

Publisher

State University of New York Press

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