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years before World War I offered sharp cri first-century social inequity. offers the first comprehen ring millions of Americans a century ago. Author Linda J. Lumsden mines more sions of a cooperative commonwealth. The tarian, defiant, and celebratory of freedom. from the roots of the American experience. suppress the radical press. It draws parallels Continued on back flap Continued from front flap movement. Despite the distance from the typewriter to Twitter, Lumsden concludes that twenty-first-century social movement did their nearly forgotten predecessors. University of Arizona. She is the author Rampant Women: Suffragists and . A three-time win ism history and alternative news media. A LIVELY AND TIMELY LOOK AT PREWAR SOCIALIST, ANARCHIST, AND IWW PERIODICALS “Linda Lumsden’s Black, White, and Red All Over is brimming with fresh insights and new material on the radical press at its peak in the first two decades of the twentieth century. This is a crucial and too-often overlooked period of American history—for the press, for the left, for the nation in general—and Lumsden’s book is mandatory reading for those needing to get up to speed. Ideal for classroom use.”—Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “An intensely readable and fascinating account of an exhilarating period in American press history. Then, as now, subterranean radical media were often dismissed by the well-to-do as off the wall, yet they were at the heart of movements for social justice. That struggle needs to know its past.”—John D. H. Downing, editor , Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media The Kent State University Press Kent, Ohio 44242 www.KentStateUniversityPress.com 9 781606 352069 ISbn 978-1-60635-206-9 ...

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