Background
Evans was born in Lufkin in Angelina County in East Texas, the son of Lysander Lee Evans and the former Bird Medford.
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Medford Bryan Evans
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He graduated magna cum laude in 1927 from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and in 1933 received a Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Career
He was the father of the columnist M. He taught at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi (1928–1933), the Texas College of Arts and Industries—now known as Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University–Kingsville—(1933–1934), the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (1934–1942), the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee (1943–1944), McMurry College in Abilene, Texas — now known as McMurry University— (1953–1954) and Northwestern State College in Natchitoches, Louisiana,—now Northwestern State University—in 1955-1959. In addition, Evans worked for the since defunct radio station WDOD (Department of Administration and Management) in Chattanooga, Tennessee (1943–1944), the Atomic Energy Commission in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Washington, District of Columbia (1944–1952), Facts Forum of Half-Life Hunt and Dan Smoot (1954–1955), and the Jackson (Mississippi) Citizen"s Council as managing editor of The Citizen: A Journal of Fact and Opinion (1962-?), official publication of the Citizens" Councils of America in Jackson.
One of Evans" articles in The Citizen, "How to Start a Private School" (1964), was republished as a small book and became influential in the South"s burgeoning movement toward private day-schools to avoid school desegregation. (These schools were sometimes labeled "segregation academies" or "Christian academies" in the press, but virtually all now admit African-American pupils) Evans also published articles in the conservative magazines National Review and Human Events.
Evans" other published writings include the books The Secret War for the A-Bomb (1953), Civil Rights Myths and Communist Realities (1965), The Usurpers (1968), and The Assassination of Joe McCarthy (1970), reflecting his belief in the revelations of communist subversion unveiled in the 1950s by United States. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin.
Evans contributed articles on educational trends to magazines (eg Harper"s) and newspapers. His usual topics were the decline in classical education, the need for vocational education, and the use of public schools to promote social engineering. A typical paragraph, from "What Are We Teaching Our Children" in American Opinion, shows how he could touch on all three themes at once: The couple had a son, columnist M.
The Evanses moved in 1986 from Jackson, Mississippi, to Hamilton in Loudoun County, Virginia, where each subsequently died.
They are interred at Lakeview Cemetery in Hamilton.
Membership
Evans was also a member of the John Birch Society, founded by Robert West. Welch, Junior. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was a frequent contributor to the JBS monthly magazine, American Opinion.
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