McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks

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For twenty years after World War II, the United States was in the grips of its second and most oppressive red scare The hysteria was driven by conflating American Communists with the real Soviet threat The anticommunist movement was named after Senator Joseph R McCarthy, but its true dominant personality was FBI director J Edgar Hoover, who promoted and implemented its repressive policies and laws The national fear over communism generated such anxiety that Communist Party members and many leftwing Americans lost the laws8217protections Thousands lost their jobs, careers, and reputations in the hysteria, though they had committed no crime and were not disloyal to the United States Among those individuals who experienced more of anticommunism8217 s varied repressive measures than anyone else was Clinton Jencks Jencks, a decorated war hero, adopted as his own the Mexican American fight for equal rights in New Mexico8217 s mining industry In 1950 he led a local of the International

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