Abstract
ABSTRACT Pioneer educators who labored to elevate broadcasting to the status of a respected discipline in higher education have received limited historical study. The storied academic career of Sherman Paxton Lawton ascended in one of the most transformative eras in mass communication history, the introduction of radio and television. This article chronicles not only Lawton’s achievements in broadcast education—publication of the first broadcast textbook and founder of a national honorary—but also his contributions to the study of human history and controversial political activism that tested the limits of a tenured professor’s free speech.
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