scare
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The Red Scare followed—the government arrested and deported radicals, breaking unions like the IWW and hobbling labor for a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
As I conclude in my latest book “American Scare: Florida’s Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives,” referencing Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz,” “There are friends of Dorothy in any system.”
From Salon • Oct. 4, 2025
To distance themselves from the Red Scare, the Reds temporarily changed their name.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025
By the time Hofstadter wrote that, the Red Scare had subsided, its loudest voices pushed to the fringe of U.S. politics.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025
The patriotic fervor that had engulfed the nation during World War I fueled the Red Scare.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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