On #ThisDayInHistory in 1950, alcoholic Senator #JosephMcCarthy found a reëlection trick in a bald-faced that he had a list of 205 "known communists" working in the #StateDepartment, setting off the #SecondRedScare. The number kept changing and he never turned over a single name.

Bradbury said that he wrote “Fahrenheit 451” because of his concerns about the threat of book burning in the United States. It was written in the midst of the #SecondRedScare and the #LavenderScare brought about by the right-wing demagogue Senator #JosephMcCarthy,

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

"In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers—communists, progressives, liberals—and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself."

#USpol #UShistory #stateRepression #AcademicFreedom #education #AmericanSchools #UShigherEd #Trumpism #civilLiberties #SecondRedScare #McCarthyism

#OTD #TDIH #April27, 1965: #RIP #EdwardRMurrow. #Journalists #BroadcastJournalist #WarCorrespondents #CBS #CBSNews #Radio #TV #WorldWarII #WWII #JosephMcCarthy #McCarthyism #RedScare #SecondRedScare #SeeItNow #TVSky
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The Second Red Scare & Political Deportations | KPFA Guest: Michelle Chen is a postdoctoral fellow in history at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She teaches labor and working-class history, studies the intersection of work, migrati...

#LettersAndPolitics via @kpfa.org | The #SecondRedScare

guest: Michelle Chen, postdoctoral fellow in history @ Cornell School of Industrial & Labor Relations

#MassDeportations #UShistory #AmericanHistory #ContemporaryHistory #ColdWar #StateRepression #CivilLiberties

Here's yet another brazen Nazi salute, they aren't even trying to hide it anymore....
#SecondRedScare
#RepublicansAreNowFascists
#MagaHatsAreNaziArmbands