How Free Speech Saved Democracy: The Untold History of How the First Amendment Became an Essential Tool for Security Liberty and Social Justice

This book explores the history of how change has been brought about through the protections offered by the First Amendment rights in the US Constitution. It will go through vivid stories and testimonies of pioneers that engaged these rights to make social change. It will go through the many snags across history; how the rights offered in the amendment have often had to be fought for alongside many other issues — whether that was abolition, women’s rights activists, in the labor movement, and the Civil Rights movement. The author is a historian who has spent four decades being an activist and advocate of free speech; He wrote this book out of an urgency to address the decline in support for freedom of expression.