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Those Who Don’t Learn From History Are Doomed to Repeat it…. - UNC Press Blog
April 14, 2009 proved to be a dark day for progress and equality in, ironically, one of the most liberal collegiate atmospheres in the country. Forty-six years after the highly controversial Speaker Ban law was passed, it seems that the UNC Chapel Hill finds itself once again in the spotlight. In 1963, the Speaker Ban prohibited members of the Communist Party or people who had used the Fifth Amendment to avoid Congressional investigations of “un-American” activity from speaking on campus. It seems history has unfortunately repeated itself—Last Tuesday, Tom Tancredo, former Republican U.S. Representative from...
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