Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North CarolinaNorth Carolina's 1963 speaker ban law declared the state's public college and university campuses off limits to "known members of the Communist Party" or to anyone who cited the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer questions posed by any state or federal body. Oddly enough, the law was passed in a state where there had been no known communist activity since the 1950s. Just which "communists" was it attempting to curb? In Communists on Campus, William