Red Scare
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The Red Scare followed—the government arrested and deported radicals, breaking unions like the IWW and hobbling labor for a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
By the time Hofstadter wrote that, the Red Scare had subsided, its loudest voices pushed to the fringe of U.S. politics.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2025
After noting that her film career started at the end of McCarthyism and the Red Scare, Fonda emphasized the need for the Hollywood community to fight for what they believe in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2025
This Red Scare was better known as the McCarthy Era or simply McCarthyism.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2024
It was this nativist philosophy, bolstered by his fear and distrust of foreigners, that prompted Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to pursue policies that brought the Red Scare in America to a head in 1919.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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