Classroom 15
How the Hoover FBI Censored the Dreams of Innocent Oregon 4th Graders
A result of an investigative report by tenacious University of Oregon journalism students, Classroom 15 tells the story of how the dreams of fourth-grade students at the Riverside School, Roseburg, in rural Oregon timber country, were crushed by the prevailing Red Scare, McCarthyism, state and societal censorship, and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.The teacher of Classroom 15, known fondly as Mr. McFetridge, assigned a pen pal project in an effort to take geography lessons outside of the classroom. Imagining a place as far from Oregon as they possibly could, the students wrote letters to nine- and ten-year-old counterparts in the Soviet Union. Janice…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78527-599-9
- EAN: 9781785275999
- Produktnummer: 35458850
- Verlag: Anthem Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 222 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'009 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Peter Laufer, PhD, holds the inaugural James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication where he was awarded the Marshall Prize for teaching innovation. A former and longtime global correspondent for NBC News, Laufer reports on borders, identities and migration. He has covered the requisite wars and earthquakes, coups and elections.
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