Thought Police
Thought Police
In 1954, at the height of a period of anticommunist sentiment in the United States, the University of Michigan held a board of inquiry to investigate the political beliefs of three of its teachers. The three had been called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and all had refused to answer questions related to their membership in or knowledge of the American Communist Party. H. Chandler Davis, an Instructor in Mathematics, also refused to answer the University Committee's questions, and was dismissed. Clement L Markert, Assistant Professor of Zoology, chose to cooperate with the University's board of inquiry, and was reinstated, with a letter of censure inserted in his personnel file. Mark Nickerson, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, also chose to cooperate, but was nevertheless dismissed . The University of Michigan, in effect, fired two of its faculty because they kept their political views to themselves.
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