From 1942 to 1945, libertarian writer Rose Wilder Lane penned a weekly column for the Pittsburgh Courier, the most widely read American black newspaper of the time. Her work for the paper was the most ambitious effort of any author during this period to promote laissez-faire ideas to a black audience.

Linda Royster Beito is Professor of Social Sciences and Dean of Arts and Science at Stillman College.
David T. Beito is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, and author of The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance.
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Other Independent Review articles by Linda Royster Beito
Spring 2016 The “Lodger Evil” and the Transformation of Progressive Housing Reform, 1890–1930
Spring 2000 Gold Democrats and The Decline of Classical Liberalism, 1896-1900
Other Independent Review articles by David T. Beito
Summer 2016 “New Deal Witch Hunt”: The Buchanan Committee Investigation of the Committee for Constitutional Government
Spring 2016 The “Lodger Evil” and the Transformation of Progressive Housing Reform, 1890–1930
Summer 2008 Punishment and Inequality in America
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