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Red alert! The National Education Association's National Commission for the Defense of Democracy through Education confronts the "red scare" in American schools, 1945-1955.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Red alert! The National Education Association's National Commission for the Defense of Democracy through Education confronts the "red scare" in American schools, 1945-1955./
Author:	Foster, Stuart John.
Description:	321 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-09, Section: A, page: 3851.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-09A.
Subject:	Education history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9705837
ISBN:	9780591126822

Red alert! The National Education Association's National Commission for the Defense of Democracy through Education confronts the "red scare" in American schools, 1945-1955.
Foster, Stuart John.

Red alert! The National Education Association's National Commission for the Defense of Democracy through Education confronts the "red scare" in American schools, 1945-1955. - 321 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-09, Section: A, page: 3851.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 1996.

In the decade which immediately followed the end of World War II, public education in the United States encountered a storm of controversy and criticism. Attacks on school personnel frequently assumed the rhetoric and practices of virulent anti-communism. Using the potent arsenal of "red scare" these attacks often had a deeply disturbing and severely damaging impact in many school districts throughout the United States.

ISBN: 9780591126822Subjects--Topical Terms:

3171959
Education history.

Red alert! The National Education Association's National Commission for the Defense of Democracy through Education confronts the "red scare" in American schools, 1945-1955.
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520 $a In the decade which immediately followed the end of World War II, public education in the United States encountered a storm of controversy and criticism. Attacks on school personnel frequently assumed the rhetoric and practices of virulent anti-communism. Using the potent arsenal of "red scare" these attacks often had a deeply disturbing and severely damaging impact in many school districts throughout the United States.
520 $a As the representative of half a million educators and the world's largest organization, the National Education Association (NEA) assigned responsibility to protect the interests of teachers and to respond to the "red scare" attacks to its National Commission for the Defense of Democracy through Education. Originally formed in 1941, from the late 1940s to the early 1950s, the Commission swiftly became the teaching profession's primary means to blunt organized and concerted "red scare" attack. Assiduously, the Defense Commission worked to track, to suppress, to investigate, and to challenge individuals and organizations that employed "red scare" tactics to undermine public education.
520 $a Paradoxically, however, despite the Commission's unceasing efforts, it fell a casualty to the infectious tide of anti-communism that swept the country during the post-war years. Above all, the Commission accepted the prevailing zeitgeist that a serious internal communist threat existed. Moreover, the Commission repeatedly emphasized that it opposed the employment of members of the Communist Party as teachers in American schools. Ultimately, therefore, despite some notable achievements, rather than stand firmly against the excesses of anti-communism, the Commission frequently embraced many of its fundamental convictions.
520 $a A study of the work of the Defense Commission based upon hitherto unexplored materials housed at the NEA archives, both illustrates the determination of a body of professionals to defend teachers in difficult times and the scale, intensity, and nature of "red scare" criticism of schools. In addition, scrutiny of the actions of the Defense Commission starkly illuminates the extent to which powerful "red scare" forces both dominated the American socio-political landscape and increasingly influenced the course of American public education in the decade following World War II.
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