In the late 1950s and early ’60s, a group of Florida lawmakers known as the Johns Committee went after professors they thought to be homosexual and classroom texts they deemed subversive. The committee chilled speech and upended lives. Viewed from the perspective of today’s attacks on higher education, their rationale looks very familiar.
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Higher Ed Under FireWhen Lawmakers Purged ‘Immorality’ From Florida Universities
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What a 1960s Housewife Can Teach Us About Politics in Higher Ed
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‘Private Little Hell’
A Florida committee once hunted for gay people in its universities. Sixty years later, the effects linger.
