Red scare in the sunshine state: Anti-communism and academic freedom in Florida public schools, 1945–1960 by Robert L. Dahlgren

“…Under the guise of “Americanism,” self-defined “patriotic” groups such as The American Legion, the Chambers of Commerce, and Daughters of the American Revolution intervened in educational policies in order to impose strict limits on academic freedom in public schools in an effort to quash what they considered the “Communist threat” in American education. …”
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