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Conversations on Law & Liberty: RESOURCES: Democracy & Debate




 
Resources

ABA Online "Conversation" with Mary Beth Tinker
Online resource featuring students' questions with three plaintiffs from Tinker v. Des Moines, the Vietnam-era students' rights case regarding freedom of expression.

The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents by Ellen Schrecker

Brandenburg v. Ohio
U. S. Supreme Court's 1969 decision holding that an Ohio criminal syndicalism law violated a Ku Klux Klan leader's free speech rights. The law broadly prohibited public speech that advocates "unlawful methods of terrorism" and other activities to advance political reform. From the Northwestern University Oyez Project database of Supreme Court cases.

Emma Goldman Speech Against Conscription and War
Delivered in New York City on June 14, 1917. Goldman's opposition to a mandatory draft resulted in a two-year prison term and then deportation from the United States in 1919.

Houchins v. KQED (1978)
The Supreme Court held "that the First Amendment granted no special right of access to the press of government-controlled sources of information." From the Northwestern University Oyez Project database of Supreme Court cases.

"Homefront USA" Episode of Vietnam: A Television History
Part of 13-part documentary "American Experience" film series produced for public television.

Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II
Features 33 posters designed to rally public support for the war.

Robert LaFollette Defends Free Speech in Wartime (October 6, 1917)
Speech by U.S. Sen. LaFollette (R-Wisconsin), who opposed the involvement of the United States in World War I.

Texas v. Johnson
U. S. Supreme Court's 1989 decision holding that Johnson's burning of the American flag was a form of speech protected under the First Amendment. From the Northwestern University Oyez Project database of Supreme Court cases.


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