1940's Government and Politics | "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...