Background
Wiegand, Wayne August was born on April 15, 1946 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Edward and Germaine Ann Wiegand.
( How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity ...)
How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity Between the two major red scares of the twentieth century, a police raid on a Communist Party bookstore in Oklahoma City marked an important lesson in the history of American freedom. In a raid on the Progressive Bookstore in 1940, local officials seized thousands of books and pamphlets and arrested twenty customers and proprietors. All were detained incommunicado and many were held for months on unreasonably high bail. Four were tried for violating Oklahoma’s criminal syndicalism” law, and their convictions and ten-year sentences caused a nationwide furor. After protests from labor unions, churches, publishers, academics, librarians, the American Civil Liberties Union, members of the literary world, and prominent individuals ranging from Woody Guthrie to Eleanor Roosevelt, the convictions were overturned on appeal. Shirley A. Wiegand and Wayne A. Wiegand share the compelling story of this important case for the first time. They reveal how state powerwith support from local media and businesseswas used to trample individuals’ civil rights during an era in which citizens were gripped by fear of foreign subversion. Richly detailed and colorfully told, Books on Trial is a sobering story of innocent people swept up in the hysteria of their times. It marks a fascinating and unnerving chapter in the history of Oklahoma and of the First Amendment. In today’s climate of shadowy foreign threatsalso full of unease about the way government curtails freedom in the name of protecting its citizensthe past speaks to the present.
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library and information science educator
Wiegand, Wayne August was born on April 15, 1946 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Edward and Germaine Ann Wiegand.
Bachelor, University Wisconsin, Oshkosh, 1968. Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1970. Master of Library Science, Western Michigan University, 1974.
Doctor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, 1974.
Instructor Northwestern Academy, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 1969-1970. College library Urbana (Ohio) College, 1974-1976. Assistant professor library and information science University Kentucky, Lexington, 1976-1982, associate professor library and information science, 1982-1986, University Wisconsin, Madison, 1987-1989, professor, 1989—2002.
F. William Summers professor library and information studies, professor American Studies Florida State University, since 2003. Director Florida Book Awards, since 2006.
( How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity ...)
Member American Library Association (Herbert Putnam award 1975, Library. Research Round Table award 1979, Justin Winsor award 1982, William B. Hesseltine award 1990, G.K. Hall award 1988, 91), American History Association, American Studies Association, Organisation American Historians, Association Library. and Information Science Educators (research paper awards 1983, 87).
Married Shirley Ann Abitz, June 15, 1965. Children: Corinna Faye, Scott Edward, Andrew Wayne.