Repression and Resistance Canadian Human Rights Activists 1930 1960 1st Edition by Ross Lambertson ISBN 0802089216 978-0802089212

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ISBN 10:0802089216

ISBN 13:978-0802089212

Author:Ross Lambertson

Examining the history of human rights in Canada from 1930 to 1960, the period just before the emergence of contemporary human rights groups, Repression and Resistance focuses on the activists who fought against what they perceived to be the major human rights injustices of the time: the Quebec anti-communist padlock law, the violation of civil liberties during the war, the post-war attempt to deport Japanese Canadians, campaigns to obtain effective anti-discrimination legislation, civil liberties violations during the Cold War, and the struggle to obtain a Bill of Rights.

Using newspaper files, government documents, collections of personal papers, and interviews with former political activists, Ross Lambertson demonstrates how certain Canadians – including members of ethnic, labour, religious, civil libertarian, and other organizations – were sufficiently “aroused by injustice” so as to fight for human rights. The book shows how these different activists and their organizations were inter-related, but also how, at the same time, they were very often separated by ideological, cultural, and geographic divisions.

Table of contents: 

Civil Libertarians and the Padlock Law
Canada’s gradual entry into the age of rights, from about 1930 to 1960, was marked by several developments…

The Second World War: Civil Liberties at Risk
From the human rights perspective, the Second World War in Canada began with debate over libertarian rights…

The Japanese-Deportation Issue
In the later years of the war, discrimination against a variety of ethnic and religious minorities began to permeate…

The Gouzenko Affair, Civil Libertarians, and the Shugar Case
As the Second World War drew to a close, there were mixed messages about what this would mean for civil liberties…

The Canadian Jewish Congress and the Human Rights Community
As this book has noted, in the mid-1940s Canadians began to shift from the traditional language of ‘British liberties’…

Civil Liberties Groups and the Cold War
Canada has never had a truly comprehensive and national civil liberties group analogous to the American Civil Liberties Union…

The Dresden Story: The Jewish Labour Committee and Blacks in Dresden, Ontario
This book has already mentioned the contribution of the Jewish Labour Committee to the work of the Canadian Jewish Congress…

The Canadian Human Rights Community and the Bill of Rights
Earlier chapters in this book have mentioned in passing that certain key groups and individuals in the post-war Canadian human rights community…

Conclusion
This book has shown how Canada entered the age of rights from 1930 to 1960…

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