State of Defiance: Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties - Couverture rigide

Poucher, Judith G.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0813049938 ISBN 13 : 9780813049939

Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2014

Synopsis

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 behaviour.



Drawing on previously unpublished sources and newly unsealed records, Judith Poucher profiles five individuals who stood up to the Johns Committee.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, a teacher. University of Florida professor Sig Diettrich was threatened with twenty years in prison and being “outed,” yet he still would not 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 re-examining the daring stands taken by these ordinary citizens, Poucher illustrates not only the abuses propagated by the commit¬tee but also the collective power of individuals to effect change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Judith Poucher is retired professor of history at Florida State College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Florida
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813049938
• ISBN 13: 9780813049939
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible