What the Cold War Can Teach Us About Critical Race Theory | Crooked History

In the third episode of Crooked History, Kaya Henderson explains how the red scare seeped into American classrooms and changed the way teachers discussed communism and socialism. Then we turn our eye to the fight over Critical Race Theory and what our history tells us about fighting political battles in the classroom.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:30 Critical Race Theory and General Milley Reading Karl Marx
2:32 Some Background
4:35 How Did 'Under God' Get Into the Pledge of Allegiance?
6:35 Teachers Threatened and Fired for Their Teaching
7:34 The Space Race Pushes Government Influence in Schools
9:16 What Happens to Kids Who Are Taught to Hate Communism?

SOURCES
The Truman Doctrine: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp
Communism in High School Curriculum: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23251453?seq=10#metadata_info_tab_contents
Florida State Anti-Communism Guide: https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A32433/datastream/OBJ/view
McCarthyism in Education: https://scalar.usc.edu/works/constructing-a-culture/mccarthyism-in-education
The Red Scare in American Public Schools: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1425&context=eandc

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