"Clearly and closely analyzes the actions and motivations of one of
the segregationist South's most formidable institutions. Based on
archival source materials, this is an original and important
addition to our expanding knowledge of the mechanics of southern
resistance to desegregation and the development of modern
conservatism."--George Lewis, University of Leicester 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. Stacy Braukman is an independent
scholar and coauthor of "Gay and Lesbian Atlanta."
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