| Clip Of The 1950s

Video Clip: LGBTQ+ People and the Lavender Scare

Description

University of Oklahoma professor Jennifer Holland discussed the tension for LGBTQ+ people in the 1950s. Holland is an assistant professor of history at University of Oklahoma and the author of "Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement."

6 minutes

Keywords

  • Communist
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Espionage
  • Executive Order
  • Fifth Column
  • Joe Mccarthy
  • Lavender Scare
  • President
  • Red Scare
  • State Department
  • Subversive
  • World War Two