Interrogating the "Johns Committee"

Robert “Bobby” Fieseler is a journalist and scholar who researches marginalized groups and excavates forgotten histories. Fieseler will lecture and read from his latest book American Scare: Florida’s Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives on the history and legacy of the infamous Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, a McCarthy-esque cabal of white legislators that targeted Black and queer Floridians between 1956 and 1965, as well as its impact in Gainesville.

This program is sponsored in part by Visit Gainesville/Alachua County, FL.