Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When four New York City colleges banned author Howard Fast from speaking on their premises in December, 1947, they touched off a dispute over who may speak when and where in New York universities, a dispute which even now is disturbing the Brooklyn College campus...
...days later Brooklyn College President Harry D. Gideonse banned Fast from a Karl Marx Society speech because of a college policy of "refusing permission to speak on the campus to any person whose conduct is under judicial consideration...
...Brooklyn, as at Columbia, opponents of the ban were quick to point out that Lyman Bradley had given a speech several weeks before, under the auspices of two Brooklyn College groups...
Then Fast was stopped at City College. Dean John J. Theobald gave the same reasons presented by Columbia and Brooklyn...
...same day, December 12, Fast was refused twice more. The New York Board of Education refused to let him speak at the Midwood High School, across the street from Brooklyn College. And at Hunter College the Dean, over P.C.A. protests, turned Fast down. Both bans were based on Fast's legal status...