The Lavender Scare
Document Type
Interview
Publication Date
6-9-2019
Abstract
In the 1950s the U.S. government deemed federal workers who were homosexual to be security risks and began purging them from the workforce. A new documentary looks at how the policy played out over more than four decades. Mo Rocca reports.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
CBS Sunday Morning, June 9, 2019
Scholar Commons Citation
Rocca, Mo and Johnson, David K., "The Lavender Scare" (2019). History Faculty Publications. 251.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/hty_facpub/251