Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1874
Release: 1954
Genre:
ISBN:

The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57

The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57
Author: Vernon L. Pedersen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252023217

He also tracks the public's changing perception of the Communists, from amused unconcern to alarm, and details how the Ober antisubversive law and the HUAC hearings of the 1950s dismantled the Party from without while planting seeds of paranoia that destroyed it from within.".

Behind the Backlash

Behind the Backlash
Author: Kenneth D. Durr
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003-11-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807862371

In this nuanced look at white working-class life and politics in twentieth-century America, Kenneth Durr takes readers into the neighborhoods, workplaces, and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II. Challenging notions that the "white backlash" of the 1960s and 1970s was driven by increasing race resentment, Durr details the rise of a working-class populism shaped by mistrust of the means and ends of postwar liberalism in the face of urban decline. Exploring the effects of desegregation, deindustrialization, recession, and the rise of urban crime, Durr shows how legitimate economic, social, and political grievances convinced white working-class Baltimoreans that they were threatened more by the actions of liberal policymakers than by the incursions of urban blacks. While acknowledging the parochialism and racial exclusivity of white working-class life, Durr adopts an empathetic view of workers and their institutions. Behind the Backlash melds ethnic, labor, and political history to paint a rich portrait of urban life--and the sweeping social and economic changes that reshaped America's cities and politics in the late twentieth century.

This Nest of Vipers

This Nest of Vipers
Author: Charles Howard McCormick
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1989
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780252016141

This book chronicles Luella Raab Mundel's unsuccessful attempt to regain her job and restore her reputation after she was labeled a security risk and fired from Fairmont State College during the McCarthy-era Red Scare of the 1950s.