An Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and other accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras
John A. Salmond (1937-2013) is Emeritus Professor of History at La Trobe University, Australia. He is author of Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle and The Southern Rebel: The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis Williams, 1890-1965, and many more.