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In the Shadows of Gompers: Lucy Robins and the Politics of Amnesty, 1918–1922
Author(s) -
Kennedy Kathleen
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/0149-0508.00140
Subject(s) - amnesty , politics , constructive , law , political science , civil liberties , sociology , operating system , process (computing) , computer science
This essay examines Lucy Robins's contributions to the amnesty movement. A protégé of Emma Goldman, Robins undertook her amnesty campaign at Goldman's behest. Frustrated with what she defined as the left's lack of “constructive” solutions, Robins shifted her political alliances and joined the American Federation of Labor. Robins's choice to pursue amnesty within the A.F. of L., the essay argues, sheds important light on the early history of the civil liberties movement and its relationship to labor politics.