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With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause." [ 2 ] [ 1 ] Abernethy had found the quotation in a March 20, 1957 letter to the editor of The Washington Star ; he claimed it as proof that the civil rights movement was a foreign communist plot.
Massachusetts Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Initiative; CROWN Act (2022) Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. CROWN Act (2023) Minnesota CROWN Act (2023) Montana Montana Constitution, Article II, §4 (1973) Nebraska Nebraska Constitution, Article I, §30 (2008) CROWN Act (2021) Nevada Nevada Constitution, Article 1, Section 24 (2022)
When the Communist Party USA was founded in the United States, it had almost no black members. The Communist Party had attracted most of its members from European immigrants and the various foreign language federations formerly associated with the Socialist Party of America; those workers, many of whom were not fluent English-speakers, often had little contact with black Americans or competed ...
[72] Historically, there was extensive and long-lasting racial discrimination against African Americans in the housing and mortgage markets in the United States, [73] [74] as well as discrimination against Black farmers whose numbers massively declined in post-WWII America due to anti-Black local and federal policies. [75]
This opposition to communism led to what is known as a Red Scare; Americans were told they should fear the potential influence of communism. [2] Such anti-communist sentiments were made evident through statements such as the Truman Doctrine, which declared that the United States would provide assistance to nations threatened by authoritarianism ...
The video spawned numerous parodies, including a Funny or Die satire where the woman is replaced with a man, and another where the woman is replaced with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un. [4] The video also inspired numerous serious variations, including one where the woman in question is wearing a hijab.
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (commonly referred to as the HUAC) was the most prominent and active government committee involved in anti-communist investigations. Formed in 1938 and known as the Dies Committee, named for Rep. Martin Dies , who chaired it until 1944, HUAC investigated a variety of "activities", including those of ...
Anti-communist opinions in Anatolia started in the early 20th century, and first anti-communist incident occurred in the 1920s. On 28 January 1920, Mustafa Subhi , founder of the Communist Party of Turkey , was assassinated together with his wife and his 21 communist comrades while traveling to Batumi in the Black Sea . [ 155 ]