State of defiance : challenging the Johns Committee's assault on civil liberties / Judith G. Poucher.
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TextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]Description: xvi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780813049939 (hardback : acid-free paper)
- Civil rights -- Florida -- History
- Florida. Legislature. Legislative Investigation Committee
- Communism -- Florida -- History
- Johns, Charley
- Homosexuality -- Florida -- History
- Culture conflict -- Florida -- History
- Gays -- Abuse of -- Florida
- Gay rights -- Florida -- History
- Florida -- Politics and government -- 1951-
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- KFF411 .P68 2014
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"A Florida Quincentennial Book"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-204) and index.
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.
During the era of McCarthyism, the Floridian legislative investigative group known as the Johns Committee subpoenaed citizens under charges of communism, homosexuality, or subversive behavior. This book uses previously unpublished sources and the recently unsealed records of the Johns Committee to profile five individuals who challenged the assault on civil liberties.
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