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, tot he 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.
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