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...past eight years Leuchtenberg has been able to combine successfully an academic career with active political work. Born in New York, Leuchtenberg got his B.A. at Cornell, his M.A. at Columbia, and his Ph.D. last spring, also at Columbia, where he studied under Henry Steele Comager...
During '45 and '46 Leuchtenberg was the New England representative on the "FEPC lobby" in Washington. "With a staff of almost all Negroes, I realized for the first time what Negro segregation meant. My most disappointing experience was the sudden departure of one of the legislators who sponsored the FEPC bill. He had been warned that if he voted for the bill, his state would not get allocation of funds for an essential dam. He was a thousand miles away on the day when the bill was taken...
Speaking about his course, the Progressive Tradition in American Politics, Leuchtenberg says, "This is the first time to my knowledge that a course like this has ever been given...
Discussing the present political scene, Leuchtenberg feels that America's liberals have grown afraid to speak out and are thereby defeating their own purposes. He cited Governor Dever's recent signing of the Anti-subversive bill and said...
...because an election year is coming up and maybe they'll get a worse bill. They attack these bills for the wrong reason. They say that it's all right to stop the Communists from talking, when in reality no one should be denied the right of free speech." Leuchtenberg himself was attacked as a Communist for his ADA connections while at Smith...