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The Green Feather Movement was a series of college protests directed against McCarthyism at the height of the Red Scare in the United States. The movement arose in response to an attempt to censor Robin Hood because of its alleged communist connotations and eventually spread to universities across the nation.
Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. [1] He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, [2] [3] and ...
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.
McCarthy often used accusations of homosexuality as a smear tactic in his anti-communist crusade, often combining the Second Red Scare with the Lavender Scare. On one occasion, he went so far as to announce to reporters, "If you want to be against McCarthy, boys, you've got to be either a Communist or a cocksucker."
On Tuesday, McCarthy faced just such a motion.It was only the second time in US history that it was invoked, and the first time the speaker lost the resulting vote. In fact, the only other time ...
McCarthy also ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972, but soon dropped out. [70] He mounted an independent campaign in 1976 and received over 700,000 votes. He went against his party in 1980 when he gave his public support to Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter. [71] McCarthy tried twice again for the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 1992. [70]
The vote comes after McCarthy relied on Democratic votes to pass a temporary spending bill to keep the government open until mid-November, which alienated some hard-line conservatives who were ...
Eight House Republicans joined House Democrats in removing Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his post as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, the first time a Speaker has ...