Classroom 15 - How Hoover Fbi Censored Dreams of Innocent Oregon Fourth Graders

A result of an investigative report by tenacious University of Oregon journalism students, Classroom 15 tells the story of how the dreams of fourth-grade students at the Riverside School, Roseburg, in rural Oregon timber country, were crushed by the prevailing Red Scare, McCarthyism, state and societal censorship, and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. The book is a remarkable example of experiential learning techniques and successes and is a prime tool to teach by specific example the pragmatic processes of student-conceptualized research, employment of the FOIA, and shoe-leather journalism.

List of contents

Foreword, by Ann Curry; Introduction, by Peter Laufer; Dramatis Personae; Chapter One Children as Victims, Children as Peacemakers, Zack Demars; Chapter Two Janice 101, Maddie Moore; Chapter Three Hoover's G- Men Come to Town-Sort of, Zack Demars; Chapter Four Janice's Teacher, Amelia Salzman; Chapter Five Roseburg Then and Now, Carol Kress; Chapter Six A Time of Fear, Madie Eidam; Chapter Seven Behind the Curtain, Isabel Burton; Chapter Eight The Decades-Old Dossier, Zack Demars; Chapter Nine Progress and the Press, Julia Mueller; Chapter Ten Classroom 15 Today, Vaughn Kness; Chapter Eleven Nastya Has a Cat Named Chris, Zack Demars; Epilogue: The Process, Hayley Hendrickson and Zack Demars; Afterword, Scott McFetridge; Editors, Authors and Contributors; Acknowledgments; Index.

About the author

Peter Laufer, PhD, holds the inaugural James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication where he was awarded the Marshall Prize for teaching innovation. A former and longtime global correspondent for NBC News, Laufer reports on borders, identities and migration. He has covered the requisite wars and earthquakes, coups and elections.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Laufer
• Assisted by: Peter Laufer (Editor), Laufer Peter (Editor), Curry Ann (Foreword)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781785275975
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-597-5
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, Press & journalism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism, Ethical issues: censorship / freedom of expression, Media; Journalism; Ethical Issues; Censorship