A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire Children's School Issues the power of literature

the power of literature

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A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire Children's School Issues the power of literatureIn A Blacklist Education, a mysterious file of family papers triggers a journey through the dark days of political purges in the 1950s. Jane S. Smith tells the story of the anticommunist witch hunt that sent shockwaves through New York Citys public schools as more than a thousand teachers were targeted by Board of Education investigators. Her father was one of thema fact she learned only long after his death. Beginning in 1949, amid widespread panic