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McCarthyism and Subversion in the South Spotlighted
The piece traces televised hearings on subversion centered around Highlander Folk School and Myles Horton, with attacks on the Southern Regional Council and NAACP. It notes reactions from universities, clergy, editors, and politicians, including Bennett and Johnson, and argues against blanket anti subversive labels while detailing regional civil rights tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Alford
House
Bennett
Tennessee
Highlander Polls School
Myles Horton
Nashville
Chattanooga Times
Highlander Folk School
University of the South
Highlander
Sewanee
T Hat Manning Johnson
NAACP
National Association For the Advancement of the Communist Party
South
J. Edgar Hoover
Eee
Communist Party
Hoover
Gage Feathers
Louisiana Civil Liberties Union
Louisiana
University of Arkansas
J. T. Caldwell
University of Arle Z
Arkansas Education Association
Legislative Council
Education Association
Committee On
National Council of Churches
South Carolina
NCC
Southern Regional Council
SAC
Harold Fleming
Manning Jonson
Lona Rairach
SRC
Jackson
Arthur J. Moore McGill
Atlanta Constitution
Rufus E. Clement
Atlanta University
Charles S. Johnson
Fisk University
Howard W. Odurn