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By Judith G. Poucher
“Judith Poucher’s account of the resistance to the Johns Committee offers us the person tales that represent profitable social protest hobbies. located among civil rights, homosexual and Lesbian historical past, and the struggle over educational freedom, this publication weaves those tricky histories right into a unmarried narrative.”—Robert Cassanello, writer of To Render Invisible
“Looks at Florida’s Johns Committee in a brand new manner: in the course of the lives and thoughts of Floridians suffering from its persecutions within the Fifties. Their tales are inspiring, anxious, and instructive.”—Sarah H. Brown, writer of Standing opposed to Dragons
“An vital addition to the increasing physique of scholarship at the Florida Legislative research Committee. Readers will locate interesting the method through which ‘ordinary electorate’ championed integrity and judgment of right and wrong within the face of country oppression.”—Karen L. Graves, writer of And They have been remarkable lecturers: Florida’s Purge of homosexual and Lesbian Teachers
“Readers will study greatly from the lives of those unsung yet notable those that refused to cower prior to this tool of legislative terror.”—Steven F. Lawson, writer of Civil Rights Crossroads
The Johns Committee, a made from the pink scare in Florida, grabbed headlines and destroyed lives. Its aim used to be to halt integration by way of destroying the NAACP in Florida and smearing integrationists. electorate have been first subpoenaed lower than fees of communist traits and later for gay or subversive behavior.
Drawing on formerly unpublished assets and newly unsealed documents, Judith Poucher profiles 5 people who stood as much as the Johns Committee. Virgil Hawkins and Ruth Perry have been civil rights activists who, respectively, foiled the committee’s plans to prevent integration on the college of Florida and refused to expose Florida and Miami NAACP files. G. G. Mock, a bartender in Tampa, was once arrested and shackled within the nude by way of police yet wouldn't demonstrate the identify of her female friend, who used to be a instructor. collage of Florida professor Sig Diettrich used to be threatened with 20 years in legal and being “outed,” but he nonetheless refused to call names. Margaret Fisher, a faculty administrator, helped to carry the committee’s research of the collage of South Florida into the open, publicly condemning their bullying.
By reexamining the bold stands taken by way of those traditional voters, Poucher illustrates not just the abuses propagated via the committee but additionally the collective energy of people to influence change.
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56 While McLaurin found his segregation “strange and humiliating,” Hawkins’ reaction, even years later, to the Florida Supreme Court’s ruling was indignation: “You mean to tell me that a brand-new, half-baked law school 14 | State of Defiance would be as good as UF, the school where judges went? ”57 A year later, in 1951, Hawkins was before the Florida Supreme Court again, claiming that the FAMU law school was unequal and thus violated his Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal protection. The court disagreed and refused to relinquish jurisdiction over the case.
7 Hawes then immediately shifted the full focus of his interrogation to the NAACP, asking if Hawkins had an agreement with them about financing his case. Hawkins became more assertive again, saying that he had already answered that question, he had no agreement with the NAACP to pay anything, and it was the second time he had been asked the identical question. Hawes persisted, again asking if the NAACP had paid any of Hawkins’ legal costs, and Hawkins again replied: “I have answered that question.
Supreme Court, a case before the high court meant greater expenses. Legal costs had already strained Hawkins’ modest salary, and his wife’s earnings as a teacher were small. He could not convince a bank to give him a loan, and in 1953 his troubles with the Internal Revenue Service began. Hawkins had not paid all of his income taxes because BCC had not withheld enough money from his salary, and he could not pay the deficit. 65 Fortunately, Hawkins received some good news in the spring of 1954. S.