Harvard's secret court : the savage 1920 purge of campus homosexuals /

In 2002, a researcher for The Harvard Crimson came across a restricted archive labeled "Secret Court Files, 1920." The mystery he uncovered involved a tragic scandal in which Harvard University secretly put a dozen students on trial for homosexuality and then systematically and persistentl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wright, William, 1930-2016 (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : St. Martin's Press, [2005]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Harvard University > Students > History > 20th century. Gay college students > Massachusetts > Cambridge > History > 20th century. Gays in higher education > Massachusetts > Cambridge > History > 20th century. Homophobia in higher education > Massachusetts > Cambridge > History > 20th century. Étudiants homosexuels > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Histoire > 20e siècle. Discrimination dans l'enseignement supérieur > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Histoire > 20e siècle. Harvard University. Gays in higher education Gay college students. Students. Massachusetts > Cambridge. Harvard University Diskriminierung Homosexualität Gosset, William Sealy Student Cambridge <Mass.> / Harvard University. Geschichte 1891-1923. 1900-1999 History.
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Table of Contents:

Prologue: A dark place
The students. A death on high street
Shaken Harvard
A walk along the Charles
A rare outbreak of evil
Harvard and the homosexual
America's gay dossier
A party in Perkins
The court in session
The cunning and the damned
Farce to tragedy
Enduring wrath
Surviving Harvard. Settling dust
The Kenneth Day story
The Joe Lumbard story
The Keith Smerage story
Survival struggles
The Nathaniel Wollf story
The Lester Wilcox story
Homophobia's long march
Loose ends
Epilogue: Discovering secrets.