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Black Mountain College And The FBI

WUNC | By Hady Mawajdeh,
Frank Stasio
Published August 11, 2015 at 12:12 PM EDT
Main Building of the former Black Mountain College, on the grounds of Camp Rockmont, a summer camp for boys.
Howard Morland
Main Building of the former Black Mountain College, on the grounds of Camp Rockmont, a summer camp for boys.

In the 1940's and 1950's, several professors at Black Mountain College in Western North Carolina attracted the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigations for their progressive political beliefs.

Frank Stasio talks with Carolina Public Press's investigative reporter Jon Elliston about uncovering the details of the Bureau's probe at Black Mountain College in Western North Carolina

  Increasing anti-communist paranoia fueled a federal investigation, along with suspicion about whether or not the school was inappropriately using funds from the G.I. Bill to pay for tuition.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Carolina Public Press's investigative reporter Jon Elliston about uncovering the details of the Bureau's probe.

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Hady Mawajdeh
Hady Mawajdeh is a native Texan, born and raised in San Antonio. He listened to Fresh Air growing up and fell in love with public radio. He earned his B.A. in Mass Communication at Texas State University and specialized in electronic media. He worked at NPR affiliate stations KUT and KUTX in Austin, Texas as an intern, producer, social media coordinator, and a late-night deejay.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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