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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: McCarthyism in the suburbs
    sub title: Quakers, communists, and the children's librarian
  name:
    name part: Hepler, Allison.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This study examines the effects of McCarthyism and anti-communist investigations at the local level. The author uses the case of Mary Knowles, a librarian who was investigated in the 1950s for alleged communist sympathies, to analyze how communities, local officials and ordinary people were impacted by the politics surrounding the Cold War.
  table of contents: The children's librarian and the Samuel Adams School -- Anti-communism in Massachusetts -- The Fifth Amendment in Norwood, Massachusetts -- Loyalty oaths, libraries, and Quakers in Pennsylvania -- Public funding for the local library -- "Citizens for Philbrick" anti-communist campaign to fire the librarian -- Fund for the republic -- Contempt of Congress -- National scrutiny -- Quakers and the House Un-American Activities Committee -- Legal and moral victories.
  note: Allison Hepler.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-185) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Knowles, Mary
      name part: 1910-1997
  subject:
    topic: Anti-communist movements
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Loyalty oaths
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Quakers
    geographic: Pennsylvania
  classification: E743.5 .H45 2018
  classification: 974.8/86043
  identifier: 1498569390
  identifier: 9781498569392
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180407
    record change date: 20210501063340.0
    record identifier: in00004009050