Communists and perverts under the palms
Subtitle: the Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965
By: Stacy Braukman
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780813039824
Subjects: Politics and government; Homosexuality; Communism; Culture conflict; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Florida. Legislature. Legislative Investigation Committee; Civil rights; Florida; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : where the Sunbelt meets the Old South; title: The NAACP and the origins of the Johns Committee, 1956; title: Racial and sexual perversion, 1957-1958; title: Surveillance and exposure, 1959-1960; title: Subversion and indecency, 1961-1962; title: Sex and civil rights, 1963-1965; title: Epilogue : Anita Bryant and Florida's culture wars.