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Author:

Braukman, Stacy Lorraine.

Title:

Communists and perverts under the palms : the Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965 / Stacy Braukman.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiii, 250 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Florida.--Legislative Investigation Committee.--Legislative Investigation Committee.
Florida--Politics and government--1951-
Culture conflict--Florida--History.
Communism--Florida--History.
Homosexuality--Florida--History.
Civil rights--Florida--History.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : where the Sunbelt meets the Old South -- The NAACP and the origins of the Johns Committee, 1956 -- Racial and sexual perversion, 1957-1958 -- Surveillance and exposure, 1959-1960 -- Subversion and indecency, 1961-1962 -- Sex and civil rights, 1963-1965 -- Epilogue : Anita Bryant and Florida's culture wars.

ISBN:

0813039827 (alk. paper)
9780813039824 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)748330871

LCCN:

2011037505

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)