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Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina

Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina

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20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0820324604
ISBN13: 9780820324609
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Feb 24 2003
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
North Carolina's 1963 speaker ban law declared the state's public college and university campuses off-limits to known members of the Communist Party or to anyone who cited the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer questions posed by any state or federal body. Oddly enough, the law was passed in a state where there had been no known communist activity since the 1950s. Just which communists was it attempting to curb? In Communists on Campus, William J. Billingsley bares the truth behind the false image of the speaker ban's ostensible concern. Appearing at a critical moment in North Carolina and U.S. history, the law marked a last-ditch effort by conservative rural politicians to increase conservative power and quell the demands of the civil rights movement, preventing the feared urban political authority that would accompany desegregation and African American political participation. Questioning the law's discord with North Carolina's progreslitical and educational figures Allard Lowenstein, Terry Sanford, William Friday, Herbert Aptheker, and Jesse Helms in an account that epitomizes the social and political upheaval of sixties America.

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