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Joseph McCarthy

Date: 04 08 1951
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy speaking.
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Joseph McCarthy with Report

Date: 10 27 1952
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin holding up a report on Democratic Presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson that linked him to a host of extreme le...
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Herbert Biberman

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Description: Herbert Biberman, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten who were jailed for failure to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee about Communist...
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Four of the Hollywood Ten

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Description: Four members of the Hollywood Ten at an unidentified event concerning their defense. From left to right are: Herbert Biberman, Alvah Bessie, and Dalton Tr...
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McCarthy and Eisenhower

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: During the first months of his administration, President Dwight Eisenhower handled Joseph R. McCarthy by publicly ignoring him. However, after the abuse t...
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Novak in China

Date: 11 26 1978
Description: Journalist Robert Novak with Teng Hsiao-Ping.
Poster

"The Last Poets and Black Haze"

Date: 1970
Description: A poster promoting an event which reads, "Afro Center Presents The Last Poets & *Black Haze." The event was held in the B-10 Commerce Building on Sunday, D...
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"Down with McCarthyism"

Date: 02 22 1954
Description: Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy laughs in a posed photograph in which he holds a UPI news photograph of a British POW in Korea who denounced his citiz...
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Harry Haywood

Date: 12 1984
Description: Harry Haywood, seated at the left, one of the leading American communists, at the holiday party of the "Guardian" newspaper, the year before his death. Abe...
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Radical Editor

Date: 10 23 1978
Description: Jack A. Smith, managing editor of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper. Smith's admiration for Chinese communism is suggested by the decorations on h...
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The "Guardian's" 40th Anniversary

Date: 10 23 1978
Description: Staff of the "Guardian," the Marxist-Leninist weekly newspaper, taken on the 40th anniversary of the paper's establishment. The cake is decorated with a ha...
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Belfrage at Moscow Synagogue

Date: 1956
Description: Cedric Belfrage, co-editor and founder of the "National Guardian," visiting a Moscow synagogue after his deportation from the United States. Belfrage was d...
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Belfrage in China

Date: 1957
Description: Cedric Belfrage of the "National Guardian" visiting with China philosophers in Peking. Belfrage was the first western correspondent to visit mainland China...
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Belfrage and Robeson

Date: 1958
Description: Cedric Belfrage (center), exiled editor of the "National Guardian," at a party for Paul Robeson. The man on the left is Canon Stanley Evans.
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Farewell to Belfrage

Date: 1955
Description: Farewell party for Cedric Belfrage of the "National Guardian" at the newspaper's office. Identified in the crowd is Paul Robeson, a longtime supporter of t...
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"McCarthyism is Treason"

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Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, laughing for the camera, displays a newspaper advertisement that proclaims: "McCarthyism is Treason to America."
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Soldier and Civilian

Date: 09 1951
Description: A British soldier or police officer and a civilian on the bridge between the British area of Hong Kong and Communist China.
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Khruschev Speaks

Date: 1960
Description: Nikita Khruschev of the Soviet Union speaks to a crowd at the airport in Indonesia. President Sukarno stands at his side, while Indonesian troops stand at ...
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Communists View MacArthur

Date: 1950
Description: Political cartoon of General Douglas MacArthur and Trygve Lie entitled "Please, here's the towel" and captioned "The UN voting machine ratifying the Americ...
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United Nation Official Addresses Madison Civics Club

Date: 10 14 1960
Description: Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand, former president of both the United Nation General Assembly and Security Council, is in Madison to address the Madison Civ...

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