Federal workers were targeted for loyalty during the Red Scare
President Harry S. Truman’s “loyalty checks” began with an executive order declaring that “there shall be a loyalty ...
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Prelude to the Red Scare: The Espionage and Sedition Acts
America's first Red Scare, an era of hostility toward perceived "disloyalty" — and relentless government repression of radicals and others — began in April 1919. Organized labor, freed from ...
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What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy
Clay Risen is the author of RED SCARE: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, out from Scribner on March 18, 2025 On Jan. 22, 1953, his first day as secretary of state ...