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The historical period that came to be known as the McCarthy era began well before Joseph McCarthy's own involvement in it. Many factors contributed to McCarthyism, some of them with roots in the First Red Scare (1917–20), inspired by communism's emergence as a recognized political force and widespread social disruption in the United States ...
A key finding revealed that 35% recently toned down their writing for fear of controversy, compared to just 9% who said the same during the McCarthy era. “The McCarthy era is considered a low ...
Campus restrictions on speech are now the worst ever recorded. And professors claim self censorship has gotten four times worse than it was even during the McCarthy era.
Although the Green Feather movement lasted only through two semesters and came to an end after Sen. McCarthy was censured by the US Senate in December, 1954, it successfully prevented the censorship of Robin Hood [16] and served as an important challenge to the abusive power of McCarthyism and the government in people's lives.
The period from the 1940 resolution (and the purge of Elizabeth Flynn) to the 1954 resignation of the anti-communist leaders is considered by many to be an era in which the ACLU abandoned its core principles. [134] [135] McCarthyism declined in late 1954 after television journalist Edward R. Murrow and others publicly chastised McCarthy. [136]
"The McCarthy era is considered a low point in the history of American academic freedom with witch hunts, loyalty tests, and blacklisting in universities across the country," Honeycutt said.
In Issues of Freedom in American Libraries (1964), Moore explores different circumstances of censorship in the United States. Moore notes the popularity in the Soviet Union of Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451. This book often came under attack in the US during the McCarthy era because it was believed to be a direct criticism of McCarthyism.
Willcox became a target for McCarthy era censorship. At aged 70, she was called to testify before Eastland Committee (both for attending the China conference, and as the person who funded the legal defence of Harvey Matusow, an FBI informer jailed for publicly admitting perjury as a state witness against "communist" trade union officials). [14]