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What Taylor Swift and the Lavender Scare Have in Common
Out via Yahoo News· 11 months ago“Let’s Clean House!” was a catchy enough slogan, if not overshadowed by the more popular, “I like...
Inside the shameful history of the 'Lavender Scare,' when the US government embarked on an anti-gay...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 12 months agoFrank Kameny leads a picket line in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4,...
Are We Sliding Toward McCarthyism?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAt the height of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, Jewish community councils across the country threw out a group: the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, a...
32 Of The Best Movies About The Cold War
CinemaBlend via Yahoo News· 2 months agoTom Cruise in Top Gun. If you grew up anytime from the 1950s to the 1980s, The Cold War was omnipresent. Bomb drills, proxy wars, and fear of a nuclear...
Racist dog whistle escalates to McCarthyism in Kansas attack on college diversity | Opinion
Wichita Eagle via AOL· 1 year agoThese days, we look back on McCarthyism and the Red Scare of the 1950s and wonder: Why did so many...
“Fahrenheit 451," other relevant plays part of scaled-back Gainesville theatrical season
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHow relevant to contemporary American life is a 70-year-old sci-fi story inspired by the 1950s “Red...
5 unsung films that dramatize America's rich labor history
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years ago'The Salt of the Earth,' made during the height of the post-World War II Red Scare, was blacklisted....
Will Riverdale Ever Return To The Original Versions Of Characters After The 1950s? One Star Has A...
CinemaBlend via Yahoo News· 11 months agoRiverdale has spent the entire final season so far in a bizarre 1950s timeline, and now one star has...
‘Past Imperfect’ is noir tale of Cleveland | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“Past Imperfect” is second in Joshua Cohen’s noir series about 1950s Cleveland private detective...
The History of LGBTQ Officers in the CIA
Newsy via AOL· 2 years agoIt began in the 1950s, during the communist witch hunt known as the Red Scare: A belief that gay people would be vulnerable to blackmail. "Homosexuals must not be handling top secret material ...
