1950's Education | "8 Teacher Ousters in Communist Case Asked by Examiner"

Newspaper article

By: Murray Illson

Date: December 13, 1950

Source: Illson, Murray. "8 Teacher Ousters in Communist Case Asked by Examiner." The New York Times, December 13, 1950, 1, 26.

About the Author: Murray Illson (1913–) received a bachelor's from New York University. He worked as a writer and reporter for the New York Times beginning in 1937, leaving to serve in World War II (1939–1945). In 1941, he resumed his position as a writer and reporter for the Times, where he worked until his retirement in 1978.

Introduction

After World War I (1914–1918), as Americans watched the unfolding of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent spread of socialist ideas in Europe, the United States was swept by a wave of nationalism and suspicion of anything foreign or radical. The "Red Scare" was characterized by a fear that communists were...