Weeding Out the Undesirables: the Red Scare in Texas Higher Education, 1936-1958
Description:
When the national Democratic Party began to transform to progressive era politics because of the New Deal, conservative reactionaries turned against the social welfare programs and used red scare tactics to discredit liberal and progressive New Deal Democrat professors in higher education. This process continued during the Second World War, when the conservatives in Texas lumped fascism and communism in order to anchor support and fire and threaten professors and administrators for advocating o…
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Date:
August 2014
Creator:
Bynum, Katherine E.
Partner:
UNT Libraries