Authors

Ron C. Judd

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2015

Abstract

Expanding on his recent History Master's thesis, veteran Seattle Times reporter and adjunct Western Washington University Journalism instructor Ron Judd examines the successful 1930s ‘Red Scare’ political campaign to remove Western Washington College of Education President Charles H. Fisher from office. Judd's presentation places Fisher's firing for the first time in the context of local and national anti-communist, "super-patriot" political trends. His study, based on archival research conducted in the collections of Heritage Resources, places Fisher squarely in the crossfire of a prolonged, bitter political war between New Deal liberals and old-guard conservatives in Bellingham, and examines whether the forced removal of Fisher by radical political operatives could happen in Washington state today.

Publication Title

Window

Volume

Fall/Winter 2015

Required Publisher's Statement

Window is the magazine of Western Washington University

http://window.wwu.edu/

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

College presidents--Dismissal of; Subversive activities--Bellingham (Wash.); Radicalism--Bellingham (Wash.); Conservatives--Bellingham (Wash.); --Bellingham (Wash.)--Politics and government

Subjects - Names (LCNAF)

Fisher, Charles Henry, 1880-1964; Sefrit, Frank I, 1867-1950; Western Washington College of Education; Bellingham Herald (Firm)

Geographic Coverage

Bellingham (Wash.)

Genre/Form

articles

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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