She and her family became a target for Quebecs Red Squads. "When I saw five strapping provincial police enter my home, I ...

It’s called “The Grocer Who Sold McCarthyism.” Local journalist Fred Fiske tells the story of Laurence Johnson, who used his influence as a supermarket owner to push the anti-communist ...

The Lavender Scare's Homophobic Campaign Paralleled The Red Scare & McCarthyism The Lavender Scare resulted in numerous people belonging to the LGBTQ+ community losing their government jobs ...

In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy declared to Congress that Far East scholar Owen Lattimore was a "top Russian spy." Lattimore tried to clear his name before two congressional committees.

During the height of McCarthyism and the anti-communist hysteria that spread globally during the Cold War, even activists like Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela were branded as communists.

HUAC hearings, the Red Scare and homosexuals That’s what happened when ... Democrats were also actively engaged in the homosexual purges that led to the Lavender Scare in which McCarthy claimed that ...

During the time of the Red Scare, a similar purge of gays from government offices and jobs was taking place in Washington D.C. Just as Senator Joseph McCarthy had incited the communist par anoia, the ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...