State of Defiance: Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties

The Johns Committee, a product of the red scare in Florida, grabbed headlines and destroyed lives. Its goal was to halt integration by destroying the NAACP in Florida and smearing integrationists. Citizens were first subpoenaed under charges of communist tendencies and later for homosexual or subversive behavior.

Drawing on previously unpublished sources and newly unsealed records, Judith Poucher profiles five individuals who st...