Pork Choppers, Presidents, and Perverts: The Response of Two University Presidents to Attacks on the Privacy and Academic Freedom of Professors by the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, 1956 to 1965

Autor/inn/en	Anderson, Jennifer Paul; O'Brien, Thomas V.
Titel	Pork Choppers, Presidents, and Perverts: The Response of Two University Presidents to Attacks on the Privacy and Academic Freedom of Professors by the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, 1956 to 1965
Quelle	In: American Educational History Journal, 43 (2016) 1, S.75-92 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1535-0584
Schlagwörter	Academic Freedom; Privacy; College Presidents; Educational History; Administrator Attitudes; State Legislation; Risk; Democracy; Political Attitudes; Political Influences; State Universities; College Faculty; College Students; Committees; State Aid; Moral Values; Teacher Dismissal; Antisocial Behavior; Fear; Records (Forms); Civil Rights; Law Enforcement; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Akademische Freiheit; Privatsphäre; College president; Hochschulpräsident; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Landesrecht; Risiko; Demokratie; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Staatliche Universität; Fakultät; Collegestudent; Committee; Ausschuss; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Lehrerbeurlaubung; Furcht; Formularsammlung; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Gesetzesvollzug
Abstract	In the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, several states followed the lead of Joseph McCarthy and formed committees to investigate Americans considered to be potentially subversive within states' governments. Students and professors fell victim to the "lavender scare," as public universities forced them to make concessions to their civil liberties. However, no investigation resulted in a large-scale, statewide purge of educators and students quite like that produced by the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (FLIC). With appropriations from the Florida legislature from 1956 to 1965, FLIC investigators interrogated students, faculty, and staff at four public universities in Florida who they deemed a threat to their McCarthy-like versions of democracy and morality. As fears of communism reached hysterical levels, leaders of FLIC rationalized that "decency" itself was at risk. FLIC was able to parlay those fears into the justification for their actions and thus operated as virtually untouchable for over a decade. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01