American Decades
"Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges"
Journal article
By: Raymond B. Allen
Date: May 1949
Source: Allen, Raymond B. "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges." Educational Forum, vol. 13, no. 4, May 1949. Available online at http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/raymond-allen.ht... (accessed March 17, 2003).
About the Author: Raymond B. Allen (1902–1986) was a physician who worked as a professor and administrator in several medical schools before rising to the presidency of the University of Washington at Seattle in 1946. Two years later, he was responsible for the controversial dismissal of three professors who allegedly held communist sympathies. In 1949, he published an article, "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges," in the journal Educational Forum. Allen left the university in 1951 and served...
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1940's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- "The Four Freedoms"
- "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech"
- Letter from James Y. Sakamoto to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
- "Letters from Los Alamos"
- The Road to Serfdom
- "Serve Your Country in the WAVES"
- "Charter of the United Nations Preamble"
- "President Harry S. Truman's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947"
- The Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover Before the House Un-American Activities Committee
- "Address by General George C. Marshall Secretary of State of the United States at Harvard University, June 5, 1947"
- "Dewey Defeats Truman"
- "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges"
- "Wipe Out Discrimination"
- "Indian Self-Government"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
