“I was in Houston public schools during the McCarthy Era, and [the school] board alternated every couple of years, and it would sometimes be run by the Minute Women. And the Minute Women were the female equivalent of the John Birch Society.” https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-public-education-diane-ravitch/

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