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The political divisions McCarthyism created in the United States continue to make themselves manifest, and the politics and history of anti-communism in the United States are still contentious. Portions of the massive security apparatus established during the McCarthy era still exist.
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]
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.
Schrecker has said that she is "a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) who undertook the study of McCarthyism precisely because of my opposition to its depredations against freedom of speech," and that "in this country[,] McCarthyism did more damage to the constitution than the American Communist party ever did."
In Showtime's McCarthy-era drama 'Fellow Travelers,' silence is the sharpest of double-edged swords: What ensures survival in one regime equals death in another.
"McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled," McCarthy said in a 1952 speech, and later that year, he published a book titled McCarthyism: The Fight For America. McCarthy sought to discredit his critics and political opponents by accusing them of being Communists or communist sympathizers.
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.
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