Author: Provost, George W.
Title: The Kraus Case
Description: Buffalo [NY], n.p. (1941). orig. wrappers. 23x15cm, 34 pp.. Frontispiece. Rubbed. Cover edges chipped & torn. Good. ¶ Author Vice-President of the New York State Federation of Teachers. Concerning the case of case of Arthur James Kraus, who was dismissed from his post in the City College of New York in 1932 after he had engaged in a hunger strike as a protest against the failure of the Polish government to curb periodic riots in its universities which resulted in the injury and death of innocent students. "His dismissal was accompanied by allegations of mental unsoundness" - first page.

Keywords: American Political History, United States, Academic Freedom, Hunger Strikes, Law Legal, Litigation, City College, New York, Dismissals