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The Lavender Scare

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51:07 | Aug 10th, 2023

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One day in late April 1958, a young economist named Madeleine Tress was approached by two men in suits at her office at the U.S. Department of Commerce. They took her to a private room, turned on a ta...Show More



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sjreif3 recommended:Jan 25th

- Started with McCarthy (R-WI) giving a speech to a Women’s Republican Club in WV and claiming that there are 205 people in state dept who are known communists - # kept changing, many of the people on the list were gay and removed from their posts - Rationale was that queers were hiding and thus ...Show More

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