Beyond the Burning Cross
Memoir
By: Edward J. Cleary
Date: 1994
Source: Cleary, Edward J. Beyond the Burning Cross: A Landmark Case of Race, Censorship, and the First Amendment. New York: Vintage Books, 1994, 219–224.
About the Author: Edward J. Cleary (1952–) graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School. He worked for the Ramsey County Public Defender's Office and defended a wide variety of clients from different racial and ethnic groups. In 1990, Cleary was assigned to defend R.A.V., who was named by his initials because he was a juvenile, and who had been accused of burning a cross for racial or ethnic reasons.
Introduction
Free speech was not a frequently litigated issue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This was due to a number of reasons, including the fact that there were few laws clearly affecting free speech. Another reason limiting discussion of...
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