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#Red-Scare

Events indexed under #Red-Scare — 36 entries in the record.

36 events From May 4, 1886 To Jan 1, 1960 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
1960-01-01U.S. Chamber of Commerce Reaches 2.5 Million Members Through Anti-Communist Mobilization
U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion
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1957-06-17Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism
Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Oleta O'Connor Yates · Communist Party USA · +1
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1954-12-02Senate Votes 67-22 to Censure Joseph McCarthy Ending Four Years of Terror
Joseph McCarthy · Ralph Flanders · Arthur Watkins · Margaret Chase Smith
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1954-09-01Communist Control Act Bans Party Members from Union Leadership, Weaponizing Anti-Communism Against Labor
U.S. Congress · Dwight D. Eisenhower · House Un-American Activities Committee · American Federation of Labor · +1
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1954-06-09Joseph Welch Confronts McCarthy with Have You No Sense of Decency in Army Hearings
Joseph Welch · Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · G. David Schine
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1954-04-12AEC Security Hearing Against Oppenheimer Begins Targeting Manhattan Project Director
J. Robert Oppenheimer · Lewis Strauss · Gordon Gray · J. Edgar Hoover · +1
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1953-06-19Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed at Sing Sing, Cold War's Most Controversial Death Penalty Case
Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · Roy Cohn · Irving Saypol · +4
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1952-01-01Hollywood Blacklist Reaches Peak with Over 300 Industry Professionals Banned
Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals · Studio executives · House Un-American Activities Committee · American Legion · +2
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1951-06-04Dennis v. United States Supreme Court Upholds Smith Act Convictions, Criminalizes Political Advocacy
Fred Vinson · U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene Dennis · Communist Party USA · +1
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1951-03-29Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Convicted of Espionage in Controversial Red Scare Trial
Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · David Greenglass · Ruth Greenglass · +2
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1950-09-23McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Codifies Red-Scare Surveillance Apparatus
Patrick McCarran · Harry S. Truman · Subversive Activities Control Board · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1
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1950-09-23McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration
Pat McCarran · Karl Mundt · Harry Truman · Hubert Humphrey · +5
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1950-09-01State Loyalty Oaths Spread as California Passes Levering Act, Requires Public Employee Pledges
California Legislature · Earl Warren · University of California Board of Regents · American Civil Liberties Union
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1950-08-01State Department Revokes Paul Robeson Passport for Political Views and Soviet Support
Paul Robeson · State Department · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1950-06-22Red Channels Published, Launching Broadcasting Blacklist and Corporate "Smear and Clear" Racket
American Business Consultants · John G. Keenan · Kenneth M. Bierly · Theodore C. Kirkpatrick · +6
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1950-06-01Margaret Chase Smith Delivers Declaration of Conscience Against McCarthy Witch Hunt
Margaret Chase Smith · Joseph McCarthy · Wayne Morse · George Aiken · +4
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1950-02-09McCarthy Wheeling Speech Claims 205 Communists in State Department Launching Witch Hunt
Joseph McCarthy · Harry S. Truman
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1950-01-01Corporate Anti-Communist Network Coordinates Labor Suppression Through NAM, Chamber of Commerce Infrastructure
National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion · J.B. Matthews · +2
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1949-11-15CIO Expels United Electrical Workers and Farm Equipment Workers, Beginning Purge of Communist-Led Unions
Congress of Industrial Organizations · Philip Murray · Walter Reuther · United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers · +2
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1948-08-03Alger Hiss Testifies Before HUAC as Whittaker Chambers Accuses Him of Espionage
Alger Hiss · Whittaker Chambers · Richard Nixon · House Un-American Activities Committee
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1947-11-25Waldorf Statement Launches Hollywood Blacklist, Studio Executives Pledge to Fire Hollywood Ten
Motion Picture Association of America · Eric Johnston · Louis B. Mayer · Eddie Mannix · +17
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1947-10-20HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses"
House Un-American Activities Committee · J. Parnell Thomas · Robert E. Stripling · Walt Disney · +9
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1947-10-01Federal Loyalty Program Implementation Creates Permanent Political Background-Check Regime
Harry S. Truman · Seth Richardson · Civil Service Commission · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1
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1947-06-23Anti-Communist Loyalty Oaths and Taft-Hartley Act Weaponized to Crush Labor Movement
Robert A. Taft · Fred A. Hartley · CIO · AFL · +1
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1947-03-21Executive Order 9835 Establishes Federal Loyalty Program - 5 Million Screened, Guilt Presumed
Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Civil Service Commission · House Un-American Activities Committee
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1945-01-03HUAC Made Permanent Standing Committee, Institutionalizes Political Persecution
U.S. House of Representatives · John Rankin · Martin Dies · House Un-American Activities Committee
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1940-06-28Smith Act Criminalizes Advocacy of Government Overthrow, Enables Political Persecution
Howard W. Smith · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1938-05-26Dies Committee (HUAC) Formed by Conservative Democrats to Discredit New Deal as Communist Infiltration
Martin Dies Jr. · John Garner · U.S. House of Representatives · Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1927-08-23Sacco and Vanzetti Executed After Seven Years of Biased Proceedings
Nicola Sacco · Bartolomeo Vanzetti · Alvin Fuller · A. Lawrence Lowell · +1
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1925-06-08Supreme Court Upholds Criminal Anarchy Conviction While Expanding Due Process
Edward Sanford · Benjamin Gitlow · U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes
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1920-08-23Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested in Red Scare Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
Nicola Sacco · Bartolomeo Vanzetti · Frederick Katzmann · Webster Thayer · +1
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1920-05-28'Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice' Repudiates Palmer Raids
Felix Frankfurter · Roscoe Pound · Zechariah Chafee · National Popular Government League · +2
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1920-01-02Palmer Raids Escalate with Coordinated Mass Arrests Across 33 Cities
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · Department of Justice · Acting Secretary of Labor Louis Post
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1919-11-07Palmer Raids Begin: Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover Arrest 6,000 in 36 Cities, Deport 249 on "Soviet Ark"
A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · U.S. Department of Justice · Emma Goldman · +2
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1919-08-01Hoover Named to Lead Justice Department Radical Division, Origin of Permanent Political Dossier System
J. Edgar Hoover · A. Mitchell Palmer · Department of Justice · General Intelligence Division
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1886-05-04Haymarket Affair Bombing and Police Violence Trigger Massive Anti-Labor Backlash
Chicago Police Department · Albert Parsons · Lucy Parsons · August Spies · +4
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