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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1974 - 8/31/1975

Funding Totals

$9,552.00 (approved)
$9,552.00 (awarded)

Challenge of the Sixites to Free Exchange of Ideas: Historical, Legal and Philosophical Issues

FAIN: FB-12010-74

Jerome A. Stone
William Rainey Harper College (Palatine, IL 60067-7373)

To examine the challenge the protests of the 60s presented to the free exchange of ideas. This study will examine the questions and justification of the dissidents and the response to them. The study will also examine the historical background of the struggle over freedom of press and speech, the legal context since 1918, and the philosophical positions.