Dickinson College Confronts McCarthyism
- 1954 Debate over Censure for Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI)
- 1956 Firing of Dickinson professor and subsequent AAUP censure
LaValle Case 1956
“The La Vallee case became the locus for tensions between the faculty and administration which had been building since the Second World War, when new faculty with sophisticated professional expectations tested their powers.” —Wendy Moffat, “Political Metaphors: Teaching on a Cold War Campus”
