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The day after Brown I, Stanley had called for "cool heads, calm study, and sound judgment" and said he would write to Byrd, who at first was neither defiant nor conciliatory. But within days, the governor's office was deluged with letters expressing fears about communist plots (this being the McCarthy era and early Cold War) and race mixing ...
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 ...
The Republican primary was won by Governor Walter J. Kohler Jr., who called for a clean break from McCarthy's approach; he defeated former Representative Glenn Robert Davis, who charged that President Eisenhower was soft on Communism. [171] Kohler was defeated in the special general election by Democrat William Proxmire. [172]
McCarthy declined requests to disclose the actual names of the people on his list, and instead referred to them by "case numbers". It is widely accepted that most of McCarthy's cases were taken from the so-called "Lee list"—a report that had been compiled three years earlier for the House Appropriations Committee .
McCarthy voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1960, [12] the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, [13] the Civil Rights Act of 1964, [14] the Voting Rights Act of 1965, [15] and the Medicare program. [16] He did not vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1968 [17] or on the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court. [18]
February 9, 1950: Senator McCarthy announces that he has a list of 205 names of Communist employees in the U.S. State Department February 23, 1950: Asteroid 1950 DA discovered, 930 years before its possible impact with Earth February 9, 1950: Element 98, first synthesized, dubbed Californium. The following events occurred in February 1950:
McCarthy's allegiance to Cohn also raised suspicions that the relation between the senator and his chief counsel was not merely professional, or that McCarthy was blackmailed by Cohn. [60] Earlier in 1952, Nevada publisher Hank Greenspun wrote that McCarthy "often engaged in homosexual activities" and was a frequent patron at the White Horse ...
The National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC), until 1968 known as the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, was an organization formed in the United States in October 1951 by 150 educators and clergymen to advocate for the civil liberties embodied in the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution, notably the rights of free speech, religion, travel, and assembly. [1]