TY  - BOOK
AU  - Poucher,Judith G.
TI  - State of Defiance: Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties
SN  - 9780813048796
AV  - KFF411 .S738 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Johns, Charley.
KW  - Florida
KW  - Legislature
KW  - Legislative Investigation Committee
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - History
KW  - Communism
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Culture conflict
KW  - Gays
KW  - Abuse of
KW  - Gay rights
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Charley Johns and Virgil Hawkins: ambition realized, dream deferred --; Virgil Hawkins: pursuit of the dream continues --; Ruth Perry: the librarian raises her voice --; Sig Diettrich: the geographer draws the line --; G.G. Mock: surrounded by fear, empowered by love --; Margaret Fisher and her University of South Florida colleagues: intellectuals versus inquisitors --; Conclusion: Majorities of one; 2; b
N2  - The Johns Committee, a product of the red scare in Florida, grabbed headlines and destroyed lives. Its goal was to halt integration by destroying the NAACP in Florida and smearing integrationists. Citizens were subpoenaed under charges of communist tendencies, and later for homosexual or subversive behavior
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