UID:
edocfu_9959227759702883
Format:
1 online resource (267 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8130-4316-6
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0-8130-4224-0
Content:
In 1956, state Senator Charley Johns was appointed the chairman of the newly formed Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, now remembered as the Johns Committee. This group was charged with the task of unearthing communist tendencies, homosexual persuasions, and anything they saw as subversive behavior in academic institutions throughout Florida. With the cooperation of law enforcement, the committee interrogated and spied on countless individuals, including civil rights activists, college students, public school teachers, and university faculty and administrators. Today, t
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction : where the Sunbelt meets the Old South -- The NAACP and the origins of the Johns Committee, 1956 -- Racial and sexual perversion, 1957-1958 -- Surveillance and exposure, 1959-1960 -- Subversion and indecency, 1961-1962 -- Sex and civil rights, 1963-1965 -- Epilogue : Anita Bryant and Florida's culture wars.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8130-3982-7
Language:
English
