First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
Resource Information
The work First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Fountaindale Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
The Resource
First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
Resource Information
The work First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Fountaindale Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
- Title remainder
- Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
- Statement of responsibility
- Ken Ellingwood
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in our own time, when journalists are targeted as "enemies of the people." In this brilliant and rigorously researched history, award-winning journalist and author Ken Ellingwood animates the life and times of abolitionist newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy. First to Fall illuminates this flawed yet heroic figure who made the ultimate sacrifice while fighting for free press rights in a time when the First Amendment offered little protection for those who dared to critique America's "peculiar institution." Culminating in Lovejoy's dramatic clashes with the pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois--who were destroying printing press after printing press--First to Fall will bring Lovejoy, his supporters and his enemies to life during the raucous 1830s at the edge of slave country. It was a bloody period of innovation, conflict, violent politics, and painful soul-searching over pivotal issues of morality and justice."--Amazon.com
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- Dewey number
-
- 326.8092
- 323.445
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E449
- LC item number
- .E55 2021
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
Context
Context of First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slaveryWork of
No resources found
No enriched resources found
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.fountaindale.org/resource/hp4E4JiuaAY/" typeof="CreativeWork http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Work"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.fountaindale.org/resource/hp4E4JiuaAY/">First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.fountaindale.org/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="https://link.fountaindale.org/">Fountaindale Public Library</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Work First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.fountaindale.org/resource/hp4E4JiuaAY/" typeof="CreativeWork http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Work"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.fountaindale.org/resource/hp4E4JiuaAY/">First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.fountaindale.org/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="https://link.fountaindale.org/">Fountaindale Public Library</a></span></span></span></span></div>