Word: caughey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book drawing the most fire was a history text titled Land of the Free, co-authored by U.C.L.A.'s John W. Caughey, Harvard's Ernest R. May and Chicago's John Hope Franklin, a Negro. A realistic and often unflattering appraisal of American history, Land of the Free, among other judgments, says that slaves were not happy darkies, that labor and civil rights groups made gains only by overcoming "savage resistance," and that the Boston Tea Party was a "mob scene." Teachers, parents and community groups in 45 different U.S. school districts attacked the book. In Oregon...
...right as being "unAmerican" and too "internationalist," and from the left for not paying enough attention to Mexican and Chinese-Americans. The prime complaint, says Retired Los Angeles Principal Beulah Quiette, is that the book "does everything to glorify the Negro." Its authors-U.C.L.A.'s John W. Caughey, University of Chicago's John Hope Franklin and Harvard's Ernest R. May-admit they made some bloopers. The text, for example, relates the pioneering civil rights leadership of W.E.B. DuBois, fails to note that he became a Communist in later life...
Died. Demaree Caughey Bess, 68, associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post and Far Eastern expert who, at the time of the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, reported that Stalin not only expected war in Europe but welcomed it; in Manhattan...