Folk Singers, The FBI, And The Second Red Scare (OOL)

Folk Singers, The FBI, And The Second Red Scare (OOL)

Osher Online | Available (Membership Required)

U of A Fayetteville, AR 72701 United States
Online Through Zoom
Open to OLLI Members Only
Thursday, January 21, 2027-Thursday, February 25, 2027
10:00 AM-11:30 AM on Th
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$55.00
12/31/2026

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Folk Singers, The FBI, And The Second Red Scare (OOL)

Osher Online | Available (Membership Required)

Some of the 20th century’s most prominent folk singers, including Woody Guthrie, Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives, were also political activists with ties to the American Communist Party. As a result, the FBI and other organizations kept meticulous files on them and worked to push them from the cultural realm. Through music, video, news clippings, and Freedom of Information Act records, we will explore these artists and the surveillance and suppression they faced.

Class schedule: Live lectures will take place at 10:00 am on Thursdays, 1/21/2027 through 2/25/2027, via ZOOM 

Each live session is 90 minutes

Thursday, January 21

Thursday, January 28

Thursday, February 4
Thursday, February 11

Thursday, February 18

Thursday, February 25

 

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Leonard, Aaron
Aaron Leonard

Aaron Leonard is an author and American historian whose writing focuses on the interplay of radicalism and governmental repression in the 20th century. Among his books are Heavy Radicals, The Folk Singers and the Bureau, and Menace of Our Time: The Long War on American Communism. Leonard has a BA in Social Sciences and History, magna cum laude, from New York University.