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The Commission on Public Education, known as the VPEC or Gray Commission (after its chair, Virginia state senator Garland Gray), was a 32-member commission established by Governor of Virginia Thomas B. Stanley on August 23, 1954 to study the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v.
Even before McCarthy's clash with Welch in the hearings, one of the most prominent attacks on McCarthy's methods was an episode of the television documentary series See It Now, hosted by journalist Edward R. Murrow, which was broadcast on March 9, 1954. Titled "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy", the episode consisted largely of clips of ...
On February 20, 1950, McCarthy had delivered a 5-hour speech to the Senate in which he presented the cases of 81 "loyalty risks" who he claimed were working for the State Department. McCarthy declined requests to disclose the actual names of the people on his list, and instead referred to them by "case numbers".
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 ...
During his time there, Reid was the founding director of the People's College (1942), an adult education program. From years 1944-1946 he served as chair of the Sociology department and editor (1944-1948) of the journal Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture. Reid then spent one year as a visiting professor of educational ...
As both men find themselves enmeshed with the political world of Washington, D.C. during the McCarthy era, the show does shine a light on real people from that time to help move the story forward.
In 1947, President Truman issued Executive Order 9835, which created the Federal Loyalty Program. This program authorized the Attorney General to create a list of organizations that were deemed to be subversive. [104] Any association with these programs was ground for barring the person from employment. [105]
Norma Barzman, Screenwriter Who Was Blacklisted During McCarthy Era, Dies at 103. Jaden Thompson. December 19, 2023 at 4:13 PM.