Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Party will resurge in Alabama because the state is poor and needs Federal aid, Durr predicted, but to do so it will have to overcome the "McCarthyism" with which the South "has just caught up." "Red and black have become so confused that any action for civil rights is of emotional necessity called Communist-inspired," he added...
...June Party leaders laid plans to train the Freedom delegation at the Highlander Folk Center in Nashville just prior to the National Convention. When several sympathetic Northern politicians disapproved, citing the Communist connotations of the Center, a Party official snapped coldly, "So you want us to yield to McCarthyism...
...June Party leaders laid plans to train the Freedom delegation at the Highlander Folk Center in Nashville just prior to the National Convention. When several sympathetic Northern politicians disapproved, citing the Communist connotations of the Center, a Party official snapped coldly, "So you want us to yield to McCarthyism...
...Goldwater's victory in California is hardly surprising in a state made up of misfits, political madmen, and a spirit of radical rightism that some describe as a fear hysteria unequaled since the darkest days of McCarthyism. If the American people are herded into electing Goldwater, they will get exactly what they deserve...
Loyalty to the concept of academic freedom has restrained the University, as a corporate body, from taking political stands on issues outside its field of direct concern. When the question was the Red Scare of the twenties or McCarthyism in the fifties, liberal opinion remained undivided. All agreed that the University should not censure its members for their views; it must remain a forum for ideas, not a judge of political rectitude...