Pork Chop Gang
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The Pork Chop Gang was a group of twenty Democratic Party legislators from rural areas of North Florida who worked together to dominate the Florida legislature, especially to maintain segregation and
Pork Chop Gang, 1956.
Photograph of the Aucilla River at Nutall Rise by Raeburn C. Horne's fish camp
The Raeburn C. Horne fish camp (1960s)
McCarthyism
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McCarthyism is a political practice defined by the accusation and investigation of left-wing individuals of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the Unite
Pork Chop Gang
…school segregation. However, it took a new state constitution to get them out. Professor Judith Poucher called the Johns Committee "Florida's version of McCarthyism". Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission…
Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954
Executive Order 9835, signed by President Truman in 1947
Transcript of the US Department of the Interior Security Hearing Board proceedings against geologist Ruth A. M. Schmidt, suspected of communist sympathies due to her membership in the Washington Bookshop.
J. Edgar Hoover c. 1953