# Brad Snyder > Author ## Posts - [WordPress Resources at SiteGround](https://bradsnyderauthor.com/wordpress-resources-at-siteground/): WordPress is an award-winning web software, used by millions of webmasters worldwide for building their website or blog. SiteGround is proud to host this particular WordPress installation and provide users with multiple resources to facilitate the management of their WP websites: Expert WordPress Hosting SiteGround provides superior WordPress hosting focused on speed, security and customer service. We take care of WordPress sites security with unique server-level customizations, WP auto-updates, and daily backups. We make them faster by regularly upgrading our hardware, offering free CDN with Railgun and developing our SuperCacher that speeds sites up to 100 times! And last but ... Read more ## Pages - [Beyond the Shadow of the Senators](https://bradsnyderauthor.com/beyond-the-shadow-of-the-senators/): Beyond the Shadow of the Senators The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball The Negro Leagues were the highest level of black professional baseball prior to Jackie Robinson’s signing with the Montreal Royals, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Triple-A farm club, in October 1945. Rube Foster, a pitcher, owner, and manager for the Chicago American Giants, founded the original Negro National League in 1920. The original NNL consisted of Midwestern teams, with Eastern clubs forming the Eastern Colored League shortly thereafter. Both leagues folded during the Depression. In 1933, Gus Greenlee, the owner of the Pittsburgh Crawfords, ... Read more - [A Well Paid Slave](https://bradsnyderauthor.com/a-well-paid-slave/): A Well Paid Slave Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports After the 1969 baseball season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their star centerfielder Curt Flood to the Philadelphia Phillies, setting off a chain of events that would change professional sports forever. At the time, there was no such thing as free agency. Baseball players were bound to their teams for life by a paragraph in the standard player contract known as the reserve clause. As a result, players could not receive fair market value for their services. More importantly, players had no control over where or for ... Read more - [You Can't Kill A Man Because of the Books He Reads](https://bradsnyderauthor.com/you-cant-kill-a-because-of-the-books-he-reads/): You Can’t Kill A Man Because of the Books He Reads The story of a young, Black Communist Party organizer and the landmark case that made him a civil rights hero. In 1932, eighteen-year-old Black Communist Party organizer Angelo Herndon was arrested, had his rooms illegally searched, and his radical literature seized. He was charged with attempting to incite insurrection―a crime punishable by death. You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads chronicles Herndon’s five-year quest for freedom during a time when Blacks, white liberals, and the radical left joined forces to define the nation’s commitment to civil ... Read more - [Media](https://bradsnyderauthor.com/media/): REVIEWS Reviews for You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: “This is not just a very fine scholarly study of a single man and his Supreme Court victory. At a time when the Justice Department and the current resident of the White House seem intent on making war on free speech, Snyder reminds us of the central importance of what Michael Kent Curtis called, in his book on freedom of expression a quarter century ago, “The People’s Darling Privilege.” Thus, this is not just a good book; it is also an important one.” Paul Finkelman, LA ... Read more - [Events](https://bradsnyderauthor.com/events/) - [Democratic Justice](https://bradsnyderauthor.com/democratic-justice/): Democratic Justice The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court Justice and champion of twentieth century American liberal democracy.  Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment (W.W. Norton, August 23, 2022), is the first comprehensive biography of the Harvard Law School professor, New Deal power broker, and Supreme Court justice. The conventional wisdom about Frankfurter is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Scholars have portrayed Frankfurter as a judicial failure, a liberal lawyer turned conservative justice, and the Warren Court’s principal villain. And yet none of ... Read more - [The House of Truth](https://bradsnyderauthor.com/the-house-of-truth/): The House of Truth A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism In 1912, a group of ambitious young men, including future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter and future journalistic giant Walter Lippmann, became disillusioned by the sluggish pace of change in the Taft Administration. They threw informal dinner parties at a Dupont Circle row house that they self-mockingly referred to as the “House of Truth.” The house became the city’s foremost political salon and de facto campaign headquarters for Theodore Roosevelt’s third-party bid for the presidency. Supreme Court justices, ambassadors, generals, journalists, and a future U.S. president ... Read more - [](https://bradsnyderauthor.com/): Kirkus starred review: “An inspiring portrait from an appalling chapter in American history.” - [Author](https://bradsnyderauthor.com/author/): Photo by Brent Futrell A Georgetown Law professor and Guggenheim fellow, Brad Snyder teaches constitutional law, sports law, and American legal history and has written books and law review articles about the history of the Supreme Court. His forthcoming book, You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon’s Fight for Free Speech (Norton, Feb. 4, 2025), tells the story of Angelo Herndon, a Black communist convicted of attempting to incite insurrection in 1933 and sentenced to 18 to 20 years on a Georgia chain, and of the people who rallied to his cause and helped ... 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