Allison Hepler: 1 book

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McCarthyism in the Suburbs

Quakers, Communists, and the Children's Librarian

by Allison Hepler
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

In 1953, Mary Knowles was fired as a branch librarian for the Morrill Memorial Library, a public library in Norwood, Massachusetts. She had been called before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and, when asked if she’d ever been a member of the Communist Party, she declined to answer, relying...
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