'The Lonesome Train' in Levittown by Maloney, Joseph F - 1958

University, AL: Published for the Inter-University Case Program by University of Alabama Press, 1958. 19p., stapled wraps, 7.75x10.5 inches, wraps worn and soiled else good condition. ICP Case Series: Number 39. "In 1954 and 1955 the residents of a vast housing development in [Levittown, Long Island]...confronted a contentious problem: whether a cantata entitled 'The Lonesome Train,' which had been described by a church publication as 'loaded with Communist propaganda.' should be banned as instructional material."-introduction. The cantata was about the death of Abraham Lincoln and had lyrics by screenwriter and former Almanac Singer Millard Lampell.