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  2. McCarthyism - Wikipedia

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    McCarthyism was supported by a variety of groups, including the American Legion and various other anti-communist organizations. One core element of support was a variety of militantly anti-communist women's groups such as the American Public Relations Forum and the Minute Women of the U.S.A.

  3. Lavender Scare - Wikipedia

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    Though the main vein of McCarthyism ended in the mid-1950s when the 1956 Cole v. Young ruling severely weakened the ability to fire people from the federal government for discriminatory reasons, [ 84 ] the movement that was born from it, the Lavender Scare, lived on.

  4. Category:Victims of McCarthyism - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Victims of McCarthyism" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Nathan Aleskovsky;

  5. Annie Lee Moss - Wikipedia

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    She bought a home in 1950, and by 1954 had an annual income of $3,300 (about $37,000 today) a year, well above the median for black women at the time. [6] [7] In accordance with a loyalty review program introduced by President Harry S. Truman in 1947, Moss was investigated by the loyalty board of the General Accounting Office in October 1949. [8]

  6. ‘Heartbroken’: West Point Alums, Faculty Grieve Axed Student ...

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    ‘That’s McCarthyism’ Diane Ryan, now an associate dean at the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, was an Army officer for 29 years and a member of the West Point faculty from ...

  7. Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia

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    He was traditionally depicted in a negative light, normally pertaining to McCarthyism and his accusations. Herblock's cartoon that coined the term McCarthyism appeared less than two months after the senator's now famous February 1950 speech in Wheeling, West Virginia. In 1951, Ray Bradbury published "The Fireman", an allegory on suppression of ...

  8. American women don’t have it so bad. Real oppression is what ...

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    If women work the same job as men, with the same qualifications, for the same amount of time, there’s very little wage gap. In America, a woman can be a Supreme Court justice, even with seven ...

  9. Minute Women of the U.S.A. - Wikipedia

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    The Minute Women of the U.S.A. was one of the largest of a number of anti-Communist women's groups that were active during the 1950s and early 1960s. Such groups, which organized American suburban housewives into anti-Communist study groups, political activism and letter-writing campaigns, were a bedrock of support for McCarthyism.