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Summary Of The Red Scare

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This article discusses the red scare (McCarthyism) at the local level of the United States. The red scare had a malicious effect in components of American life outside politics and entertainment. There were red scares in labor, education, religion, business, the fine arts, and, in a multiplicity of forms, and at the local community level. The author focuses on the city of Houston, where the community engaged in this tactic. Carleton urges archivists and manuscript curators involved in documenting local history, to be aware of the need to collect materials related to the extreme anti-Communist reaction at the local level, and of previous collections that pertain to the phenomenon. Carleton defends his thesis by using his own study of the red

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