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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Red Scare"”.
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Milwaukee and the Great Red Scare of 1919 - 1920
The Great Red Scare of 1919-1920 evolved out of the same national spirit that enabled the Wilson administration to lead America into World War I. Evidence of this becomes abundant when the Scare mentality is traced to its origins. The fact of the dual nature of the allied intervention in Russia was …
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Canada's Other Red Scare: rights, decolonization, and Indigenous political protest in the global sixties
… of Indigenous protest, commonly known as “Red Power,” in the 1960s and 1970s in the town of Kenora, Ontario. Among the themes discussed are the associations of Indian and Métis activists with Third World national liberation movements, Black Power groups in North America and other Indigenous …
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Red scare Britain: anti-communism in British government and politics during the early Cold War, 1945-56
… an overreaction to the threat of communism occurred during the period: a red scare predicated on the fear of fifth columnists, Soviet spies, agent provocateurs, fellow travellers, and crypto-communists. This exaggerated reaction to the ‘red menace’ has attracted relatively little attention …
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The Impact of the Cold War and the Second Red Scare on the 1952 American Presidential Election
<p>In the fall of 1952, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II faced off in a heated Presidential Election. The reputations of the two men followed them throughout the campaign cycle. Eisenhower was perceived as the General who defeated the Germans on the European …
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“No Other Agency”: Public Education (K-12) in Washington State during World War I and the Red Scare, 1917-1920
… paper examines the impact of World War I and the Red Scare upon public education in Washington State. Schools, expected to be the instruments of governmental policy, played an important role in the everyday lives of people on the American homefront. Although many helped in the war effort …
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The Price of Dissent: Freedom of Speech and Arkansas Criminal Anarchy Arrests
… War I and the Bolshevik Revolutions, America's Red Scare began, inciting fanatical patriotism and an alleged threat of anarchy that gripped a nation with fear. Paranoia about communists, Socialists, and anarchists divided the country and resulted in many states, including Arkansas, passing …
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“Professionals in a Soviet America” Federal Housing Policy, the Popular Front, and Architects in Los Angeles, 1919–1947
In the wake of the first Red Scare, Marie Meloney, editor of the women’s magazine “The Delineator,” founded Better Homes in America, a national organization to promote the ideal American home through publications, model homes, and local events. Herbert Hoover, the then-Secretary of Commerce, served …
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The Trial of Harry Dexter White: Soviet Agent of Influence
The Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s was fueled by claims of governmental espionage from former members of the communist underground. Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury was accused of being a Soviet agent of influence. This paper will analyze the current issues in the …
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A pregnancy test: women workers and the hybrid American welfare state, 1940-1993
… changes, business and medical opposition and the Red Scare. Subsequent policies that emerged grew largely in the private sector where women’s disadvantages in the workforce constrained maternity in the blossoming system of employee fringe benefits. Where they could, unions defended women’s access …
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Comradery, Class, and Consciousness: A Case Study in Comradery
… of two unions during the period of the First Red Scare (1919-1920). I argue that comradery as a strong, disciplined, relationship oriented towards a revolutionary goal can create an environment in which members of unions understand their short-term efforts as part of the class struggle and …
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The Class Appeal of Marcus Garvey's Propaganda and His Relationship with the Black American Left Through August 1920
… organization and remove him at the height of the Red Scare caused him to distance his program from the left. Since Garvey was pragmatic, not ideologically driven, and economic theory was secondary to black autonomy in his philosophy, increased criticism from former associates in the black American …
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Savage reds: US settler colonialism, anarchist scares, and anticommunism, 1840s-1920s
… war within the metropole. The former structured the latter and both were part of the same project of capitalist domination. What historians refer to as the First Red Scare was preceded by over half a century of red scares. Those earlier red scares played out directly within the larger context …
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Performing ‘Chinese-Ness’: Articulating Identities-Of-Becoming In The Works Of Four Sinophone Theatre Director-Playwrights In The 1980S
… and a clamp down on Chinese education due to the Red Scare - that forced the ethnic Chinese majorities of each state to respond to the accelerating emergence of China on the world economic and political scene on the i one hand, and simultaneously grapple with the ever-changing internal paradigm of …
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Plateaus of freedom : nationality, culture and state security in Canada, 1927-1957
… Grey Owl's residencies in National Parks gestured towards an alternative cultural inhabitation of landscape, questing beyond aboriginal or settler stereotypes for a hybrid mode of observation. Part 2 argues that multicultural states are, of necessity, security states. Political theory grounds …
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Seeing systems: A rhetorical history of visual media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939-1969
… in the Physical Science Study Committee partnered with filmmakers to create educational films that showed physics and physicists to Cold War America. And in the 1960s, architecture professor Gyorgy Kepes formalized collaborations between artists and scientists in order to create visual art “on …
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Between religion and politics: The working class religious left, 1880-1920
… Churches” and other well-developed ministries geared toward wage earners, they sought to replace the labor movement with the church: they re-created working class community atmospheres while defending the neutrality of the church on economic questions. Within close case studies of Social Gospel …
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"The Highest Type of Disloyalty": The Struggle for Americanism in Louisiana During the Age of Communist Ascendency, 1930s-1960s
This thesis seeks to show the pattern of red-baiting used in the United States to counter various forms of "subversive" social change. The paper illustrates how the issue of anti-communism was used as a political tool on the national level, and this tactic would trickle down to the state and local …
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"Propaganda for Democracy": The Vexed History of the Federal Theatre Project
… of this unique experiment in government-sponsored, broadly accessible cultural expression. Part of the New Deal’s Works Projects Administration, the FTP aimed to provide jobs for playwrights, actors, designers, stagehands, and other theater professionals on relief in the stark period from 1935 …
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Defining ‘Un-Americanism’ in Culture and Art: The Dies Committee’s Investigation of the Federal Theatre Project
<p>This thesis explores the House Un-American Activities Committee’s (HUAC) expansive definition of ‘Un-Americanism’ through the body’s 1938 investigation of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP). The committee, then known as the Dies Committee after its chairman Martin Dies (D-TX), publicly presented …