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Medford Bryan Evans (August 21, 1907 – February 4, 1989) was a college professor, author, editor, and critic of liberalism in American politics, education, and society. He was the father of the columnist M. Stanton Evans. ==Life and career== Evans was born in Lufkin in Angelina County in East Texas, the son of Lysander Lee Evans and the former Bird Medford. He graduated ''magna cum laude'' in 1927 from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and in 1933 received a Ph.D. from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He taught at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi (1928–1933), the Texas College of Arts and Industries—now known as Texas A&M 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 (AM) in Chattanooga, Tennessee (1943–1944), the Atomic Energy Commission in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Washington, D.C. (1944–1952), ''Facts Forum'' of H.L. 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-?),〔Ed. James B. Lloyd, ''(Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967 )'' (University Press of Mississippi, 2009) ISBN 1-60473-411-6, pp. 157-158〕 official publication of the Citizens' Councils of America in Jackson.〔A critical survey of the Citizens' Councils that cites Evans appeared in Lindsley Armstrong Smith, "(The Southern Tradition Baying: Race, Religion, and Rhetorical Redoubts )," ''American Communication Journal'', Vol. 10, Issue 2 (Summer 2008)〕 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.〔Michael W. Fuquay, "(Civil Rights and the Private School Movement in Mississippi )," 1964–1971, in ''History of Education Quarterly'', Vol. 42 Issue 2 (Summer 2002), pp. 159–180.〕 (These schools were sometimes labeled "segregation academies" or "Christian academies" in the press, but virtually all now admit African-American pupils.) Evans was also a member of the John Birch Society, founded by Robert W. Welch, Jr. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was a frequent contributor to the JBS monthly magazine, ''American Opinion''. Evans also published articles in the conservative magazines ''National Review'' and ''Human Events''.〔Neil R McMillen, ''The Citizens' Council; organized resistance to the second Reconstruction, 1954-64'' Urbana, University of Illinois Press 1971 ISBN 025200177X (p. 197).〕 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 U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin. The book ''The Death of James Forrestal'' (1966) by "Cornell Simpson" has also been attributed to Evans, an attribution challenged by his son, M. Stanton Evans. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Medford Bryan Evans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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