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The American Nightmare: 20th Century U.S. History, Red Scares, & Fred Hampton

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The Second Red Scare

FDR at the New Deal was wonderful if you were white and or as long as you weren't too dark if you were Italian. But for everyone else, it wasn't because they were basically left out of it. The second Red Scare happens in the context of Harry Truman instituting loyalty oath to all government officials that they have to swear that they're not communists. This time, J. Edgar Hoover had become a master of all things domestic surveillance which created something called the fifth column plot.

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