Pettis Perry ... speaks to the court : opening statement to the court and jury in the case of the sixteen Smith Act victims in the trial at Foley Square, New York.

Date:

1952.

Author:

Perry, Pettis.

Collecting Area:

Political Pamphlets

Call Number:

HX 86 P47X 1952 LOCAL

Publisher:

New Century

Abstract:

"This pamphlet contains the text of the opening statement of Pettis Perry to the Court and jury in the case of the sixteen Smith Act victims in the trial at Foley Square, New York. In this notorious case, Mr. Perry, together with his co-defendant, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, acted as his own counsel. His statement to the Court was made April 25, 1952. Interpellations of the Court or of the attorneys are indicated by a line of asterisks."--Publisher's note

Physical Description:

16 pages ; 19 cm

Notes:

UA Library's copy is part of the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives' Twentieth-Century Political Pamphlet Collection. LOCAL

Subjects:

Communism United States, Trials (Sedition) United States, Political persecution United States, African Americans Civil rights Government policy United States, African Americans Civil rights Government policy, Communism, Political persecution, and Trials (Sedition)

Genres/Forms:

Protest literature. rbgenr

Geographic Terms:

United States