This panel offers a ground level interrogation and provides historical context to the current struggle over Florida’s HB 7 legislation, commonly known as the “Stop Woke” Act. Our discussion will feature two history professors from Florida who are engaged in a lawsuit with Governor Ron DeSantis and two scholars currently researching a broader history of Academic Freedom in the state. This legislation was marketed to the country to stop “indoctrination” of racial concepts from Florida classrooms from K-12 to college and universities. Virginia, South Dakota, Arkansas and many other states are following with similar legislation targeting what they describe as Critical Race Theory. But the history of this effort begins with the 1992 fight over the History Common Core Standards and later efforts by conservative lawmakers to establish an “objectivity” to the teaching of history so that interpretation is rendered mute and history is mandated as “fact based” and “knowable.” This roundtable will address the evolution of this movement from the 1992 History Standards to the current attacks on the teaching of history and race in Florida college and university classrooms. Adriana Novoa and Robert Cassanello are history professors in Florida suing the state of Florida over HB 7. As 2022/23 fellows with the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder are examining how anti-CRT bills targeting higher education are affecting academic freedom, with an emphasis on classroom teaching. in Florida. Davarian L. Baldwin has researched the history of higher education in the United States.