TY  - BOOK
AU  - Braukman,Stacy
TI  - Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965
SN  - 9780813042244
AV  - F316.2 -- .B68 2012eb 
U1  - 975.9/063 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Florida
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Homosexuality - Florida - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The NAACP and the Origins of the Johns Committee, 1956 -- 2. Racial and Sexual Perversion, 1957-1958 -- 3. Surveillance and Exposure, 1959-1960 -- 4. Subversion and Indecency, 1961-1962 -- 5. Sex and Civil Rights, 1963-1965 -- Epilogue: Anita Bryant and Florida's Culture Wars -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - In 1956, state Senator Charley Johns was appointed the chairman of the newly formed Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, now remembered as the Johns Committee. This group was charged with the task of unearthing communist tendencies, homosexual persuasions, and anything they saw as subversive behavior in academic institutions throughout Florida. With the cooperation of law enforcement, the committee interrogated and spied on countless individuals, including civil rights activists, college students, public school teachers, and university faculty and administrators.     Today, the actions of the Johns Committee are easily dismissed as homophobic and bigoted. Communists and Perverts under the Palms reveals how the creation of the committee was a logical and unsurprising result of historic societal anxieties about race, sexuality, obscenity, and liberalism. Stacy Braukman illustrates how the responses to those societal anxieties, particularly the Johns Committee, laid the foundation for the resurgence of conservatism in the 1960s. Braukman is considered and nuanced in her stance, refusing a blanket condemnation of the extremism of a committee whose influence, even decades after its dissolution, continues to be felt in the culture wars of today
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