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Ruth Horowitz. When They Fired My Father. 2016.

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Title: When They Fired My Father
Creator: Ruth Horowitz
Subject: Anti-communist movements
Subject: Cold War
Subject: Nineteen fifties
Subject: Employment termination
Subject: Biography
Subject: Teachers
Subject: McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
Date: 2016
Date: 2016
Description: Ruth Horowitz Writes about experiences as a child that shaped her into the person she is today: The McCarthy Era and how it affected her family; and her father, a teacher, getting fired (and the families subsequent lifestyle changes) as a result of anti-communism scare from the NYC Board of Education.

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collection(s): Queens Memory
collection(s): Sunnyside Stories
Identifier: aql:33574
Identifier: qmp-horowitz-ruth-essay-01
Identifier: qmp-horowitz-ruth-essay-01.pdf
Format: Essay manuscript
Format: 8.5 x 11 inches; 2 pages
Coverage: Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, NY
Coverage: Sunnyside (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: Sunnyside Gardens (New York, N.Y.)
Relation: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library
Rights: Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Type: Essay manuscript
Source: Collected as part of the Queens Memory Program’s collaboration with the Sunnyside Stories (https://www.sunnysidestories.website/)
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