In Episode 81 of The Florida History Podcast we discuss Charley Johns infamous Legislative Committee which investigated the NAACP, academics and civil rights groups. It also produced the infamous “purple pamphlet” meant to condemn Homosexuality in Florida.
You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts our show), Spotify, Google, Apple Podcasts, Radio Public, Breaker, Overcast, Castro or Pocket Casts. Overcast, Castro, Spotify, Radio Public and Breaker have App Store apps for free which enable you to subscribe and listen on your iPhone if you do not use the Apple Podcast app. We release a new episode weekly.
All the episodes can be found here
The Florida Squeeze 
[…] the year I was required to take the course which included this curriculum, the Berlin Wall fell). This came about two decades after the infamous John’s Committee and “Purple Pamphlet…which targeted Florida’s academic community as well as any discussion of LGBTQ […]
LikeLike