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Source: Informed Comment

5-21-14

When the McCarthyites tried to Ban “Robin Hood” as a Communist; and the Green Feather Movement

by Alison Kysia

Mrs. Thomas J. White of the Indiana Textbook Commission called for a ban of Robin Hood in all school books for promoting communism because he stole from the rich to give to the poor.

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When the McCarthyites tried to Ban “Robin Hood” as a Communist; and the Green Feather Movement

by Alison Kysia