Name: State of Defiance: Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties (en Inglés)
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Author: Poucher, Judith G.
ISBN: 9780813049939

portada State of Defiance: Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Judith G. Poucher

Editorial

University Press of Florida

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

236

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.4 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm

Peso

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9780813049939

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del sur
Derechos humanos
Historia de américa
Historia local

State of Defiance: Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties (en Inglés)

Judith G. Poucher (Autor) · University Press of Florida · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "State of Defiance: Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties (en Inglés)"

Florida Historical Society HarryT. & Harriette V. Moore Award 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 first subpoenaed under charges of communist tendencies and later for homosexual or subversive behavior. Drawing on previously unpublished sources and newly unsealed records, Judith Poucher profiles five individuals who stood up to the Johns Committee. Virgil Hawkins and Ruth Perry were civil rights activists who, respectively, foiled the committee's plans to stop integration at the University of Florida and refused to divulge Florida and Miami NAACP records. G. G. Mock, a bartender in Tampa, was arrested and shackled in the nude by police but would not reveal the name of her girlfriend, who was a teacher. University of Florida professor Sig Diettrich was threatened with twenty years in prison and being "outed," yet he still refused to name names. Margaret Fisher, a college administrator, helped to bring the committee's investigation of the University of South Florida into the open, publicly condemning their bullying. By reexamining the daring stands taken by these ordinary citizens, Poucher illustrates not only the abuses propagated by the committee but also the collective power of individuals to effect change.