1950


During the national tumult of the McCarthy era, several SF State faculty lose their jobs for refusing to sign the Levering (Loyalty) Oath. (Left to right: Leonard Pockman, John Beecher, Marguerite Rowe, Frank Rowe, Eason Monroe, Phiz Mezey, and Herbert Bisno.) [Not present: Jack Patten, Lucy Hancock, and Charlotte Howard.]

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(Photograph by Otto Hagel, courtesy of the Labor Archives and Research Center, SFSU)



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