Hate Speech

The History of an American Controversy

By: Samuel Walker

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Paperback | 1 February 1994

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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 the first 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 strong free speech tradition. The courts were very 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.

Samuel Walker is Kiewit Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His previous publications include In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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"An original contribution to the literature not just of hate speech but of modern First Amendment issues generally... This is a fine piece of work; it deserves wide attention."-Kermit L. Hall, editor of The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States -- Kermit L. Hall

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Acknowledgments
Hate Speech in American History	p. 1
Origins of the Hate Speech Issue, 1920-1931	p. 17
Free Speech for Nazis? Hate Speech as a National Issue, 1933-1940	p. 38
The Hateful and the Hated: The Jehovah's Witnesses and Emergence of a National Policy	p. 62
The Curious Rise and Fall of Group Libel in America, 1942-1952	p. 77
Free Speech Triumphant: From Beauharnais to Skokie, 1952-1978	p. 101
The Campus Speech Codes: Hate Speech in the 1980s and 1990s	p. 127
Hate Speech and the American Community	p. 159
Notes	p. 169
Index	p. 207
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