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Anderson, Jennifer Paul; O'Brien, Thomas V. – American Educational History Journal, 2016
In the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, several states followed the lead of Joseph McCarthy and formed committees to investigate Americans considered to be potentially subversive within states' governments. Students and professors fell victim to the "lavender scare," as public universities forced them to make concessions to their…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Privacy, College Presidents, Educational History