Editing Yellow Springs, Ohio (section)

===Activism===
During the [[Red Scare]] of the 1950s, Yellow Springs and Antioch College came under scrutiny for alleged sympathies of faculty and students to the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]], due to many locals' support of [[left-wing politics]].<ref name=Red>{{cite book |title=Two Hundred Years of Yellow Springs |last=Chiddister |first=Diane |year=2005 |newspaper=Yellow Springs News |location=Yellow Springs, OH |isbn=0976915804 |pages=145–148 |access-date=July 21, 2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nM-dwSs0NeEC&q=yellow+springs+in+the+1960s&pg=PA187}}</ref> After being questioned by the Ohio [[House Un-American Activities Committee]], Antioch president [[Douglas McGregor]] released a statement in 1952 that "Antioch upholds the American tradition of academic freedom. This means the right to hear and investigate all sides of any question, including the question of Russia and Communism".<ref name=Red/>

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the village became a center of activity for the [[Civil Rights Movement]] and [[Opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War|anti-war movement]] in southwestern Ohio.<ref name="chappelle buys town"/> Villagers have retained a progressive cast in their politics, attracting new residents with similar ideas and establishing a unique [[Political sociology|sociopolitical]] demographic element in a primarily conservative region of the state.<ref name=NYT/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/23/nation/na-antioch23/2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113181542/http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/23/nation/na-antioch23/2 |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 13, 2012 |title=Old college try isn't enough for Antioch |author=Huffstutter, P.J. |date=June 23, 2007 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=July 22, 2012}}</ref>

In 1979, Yellow Springs held the distinction of being the smallest municipality to pass an [[local ordinance|ordinance]] prohibiting discrimination based on [[sexual orientation]].<ref name=glbtq>{{cite web |title=Workplace Discrimination |last=Johnson |first=Gregory A. |url=http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/workplace_discrimination.html |work=[[glbtq.com]] |access-date=August 11, 2007}}</ref><ref name=thataway>{{cite web |url=http://www.thataway.org/exchange/files/docs/glbt_civil_rights_laws.PDF |title=Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Civil Rights Laws In the U.S. |publisher= The Policy Institute of the [[National Gay and Lesbian Task Force]] |date=August 1998 |access-date=August 11, 2007}}</ref> As of 2014, it had the largest [[LGBT]] population of all Ohio's villages.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Robinson|first1=Amelia|title=Local city and villages among those with most gay couples|url=http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/local-city-and-villages-among-those-with-most-gay-couples/NOl7tpNLbIpGGSoeIFDB7K/|website=Dayton Daily News|access-date=February 27, 2017|date=January 31, 2014}}</ref>