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...popularly known as the Feinberg Law, and is named after Benjamin F. Feinberg, former majority leader of the State Senate, who introduced the measure on March 10, 1949. The bill was supposed to enforce Section 12-a of the New York Civil Service Law, which prohibited employment in public services of persons preaching forceful overthrow of persons preaching forceful overthrow of the government...
...Feinberg's measure directed the State Board of Regents to draw up a list of "subversive" organizations (those advocating overthrow) and to set regulations for disqualifying teachers belonging to these groups...
Despite heated opposition to the bill by groups of citizens and teachers, the Feinberg measure became law just before the close of the 1949 legislative session. In the Assembly, the vote was 122 to 25; in the Senate the vote...
...York was not the only state with a law designed to bar subversive teachers from public schools, but it had one of the newest and toughest. The Feinberg law (TIME, April 11) empowered schools to dismiss teachers because of membership in any organization that the state Board of Regents had listed as "subversive." When the legislature passed the act last spring, cries of alarm rose from civic groups and teachers' unions as well as from the Communists who were its main target...