Analysis Of ' The Red Scare Of The 1950s '

Years ago, there was once a small town called Chaves Ravine within Los Angeles, California and this town was a poor rural community that was always full of life. Two hundred families, mostly Chicano families, were living here quite peacefully until the Housing Act of 1949 was passed. The Federal Housing Act of 1949 granted money to cities from the federal government to build public housing projects for the low income. Los Angeles was one of the first cities to receive the funds for project. Unfortunately, Chavez Ravine was one of the sites chosen for the housing project, so, to prepare for the construction work of the low-income apartments, the Housing Authority of Los Angeles had to convince the people of the ravine to leave, or forcibly

The ability to be a credible person can go a long way in a time of panic, which was the case with Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare in the 1950s. During that time Senator McCarthy made some accusations of people being communist that were for the most part believed during the early 1950s. It is arguable that people believed him not because he had proof, but because he was a senator and worked for government.

In the 1950s there was a red scare that threatened the United States with communism and Nuclear espionage. The scare was questioned if it was conspiracy or not, but it was justified because of the spies and Soviet Union threatening the United states security. Through decryptions, trials and investigations these threats were justified because of the Venona project, the project was a secret organization that gathered and decrypted messages from soviet military agency in 1940s, and the HUAC.

     The other aspect is that the new immigrants were just walking all over American rule and not caring about laws and things. It states in Document F “We must rid our minds of the notion that America is some kind of world

With these kinds of immigrants, they did not have freedom or opportunity. European Immigrants did not have freedom because they had to stay on the island for days or weeks and they had to pass all sorts of medical exams and pass intelligence tests. Asian immigrants did not have freedom because they were held for months or years and they had to sleep in cramped areas. European immigrants did not have opportunity within their lives because the women had to be married in order to be allowed to come to America and once the immigrants came to America they lived in ethnic enclaves. Asian immigrants did not have opportunity due to the Chinese exclusion Act of 1882. In the Chinese Exclusion Act it made it so that way no Chinese immigrants would be allowed to become US citizens. The next group that did not achieve the American dream was the Native

More recently in the history of the United States, was the Red Scare. Many had fears of voicing their opinion which practically destroys all of the progress which had been made by their predecessors in gaining their liberties. Margaret Chase Smith stood up and ignored the fact that she may get labeled as a communist in attempts to eliminate her credibility in politics. She argues that the senate is being hypocritical, “It is strange that we can verbally attack anyone else without restraint and have for protection, and yet we hold ourselves above the same type of criticism here on the Senate floor. Truly the United States Senate is big enough to take self – criticism and self – appraisal” (Smith, 1950, p.523). The senators keep their own liberties

In the early 1920’s, fear of communism gripped the United States. Rumors spread with wildfire that Russia and China were attempting to take over the world and spread communism throughout. The actions of a few people caused widespread fear and hatred of the larger groups that came here from Russia and China. This fear became known as the Red Scare. Of course it was Communism and with 9/11 it was Muslims and basically all Middle Easterners.

This article was by Julius Wilson, it was very informative. As I read the article this what I interrupted from it. During that time half of the 1990s and into the early years of the 21st century, open thoughtfulness regarding the situation of poor dark Americans appeared to wind down. There was inadequate media regard for the issue of concentrated urban destitution neighborhoods in which a high rate of the occupants fell underneath the governmentally assigned neediness line, almost no discourse of internal city challenges by standard political pioneers, and even a clear tranquility with respect to the ghetto inhabitants themselves. This was significantly not quite the same as the 1960s, when the move from lawful isolation to an all the more

In the mid-20th Century, this abuse served as an analogue to place-fixing in the South. Many white landlords took advantage of their low-income black tenants, by subjecting them to deplorable living conditions and rent payments that did not go towards housing improvements. It is unquestionable that housing discrimination has imposed a tremendous harm upon the African-American community. However, these harms can addressed, resisted, and redressed. The Harlem Rent Strikes of 1963-4, through vigorous community action on the part of Jesse Gray and the Community Council on Housing, spurred community and governmental action that improved the lives of low-income Black and Puerto Rican residents of Harlem. This paper, by centering on the strikes, will demonstrate that mass resistance against housing discrimination is possible, and will provide a model for how harms related to housing discrimination can be rectified (even in today’s context). We will first discuss how landlord abuse in Harlem was an example of covert housing discrimination, then explore how resistance (and success) against landlords was achieved in the short and long-term, and finally demonstrate how this movement’s success required the reconciliation of groups that are seemingly

In the 1960s and 1970s America found itself in a tumultuous period as growing discontent with the Vietnam War, economic downturn, and Civil Rights occupied the foreground of the national dialogue. The combinations of social, racial, and economic upheaval the country experienced was no better demonstrated than in America’s grandest of cities, New York. Within this microcosm, the problems that many of the nation’s older urban centers experienced as socio-economic and racial lines were re-drawn, were most exacerbated in historically Black and Latino communities. In this case most notably in the South Bronx. Policies enacted within South Bronx community in the name of

Chicanos in the United States have had similar experiences as a culture and as a people when it comes to the space around them. For many Chicanos during the 1820s, the creation of Olvera St. shaped their homes and lives around it while Chicanos in the post-war era have seen the effects of urban renewal and the freeway systems as it has slithered through and around their built environment. The tourist attraction Olvera St. not only produced economic benefits, but it as well brought an oppressive theme of Spanish fantasy past. Renovations and attempts at modernity by the hands of the government led to segregation and displacement to the Chicano population within and around the Los Angeles area.

Throughout American history, Latinos have been subject to environmental abuse. Gilbert Estrada explores the situation from the 1940s through 1960s, when countless number of highways and freeways were placed in East Los Angeles - a community with a population highly concentrated with Latinos. The first road he was the Santa Ana Freeway; the freeway was originally planned to go through Sears, but the road was built to the store instead, though the former proposal would have been cheaper. This was able to happen, as representatives of the company sat on the development council and claimed that “they were part of the $600 billion of commercial investments in American cities that were vital to the nation’s economic stability,” compared to the East LA community, which only generated “6% of local income,” thus a burden. Even though the state acquired the land of East LA to benefit “public interest,” it instead hurt the locals and the city (Estrada 293-299). The city may have lost money in

In the 1950’s, the sudden desire of cookie cutter neighborhoods with luxurious cars parked in the garage, and blond haired children running in the front yard was the common depiction of prosperity and success. However, systematic racism in the housing sector hid under those cars and trees, lurking in the shadows. For many decades, minority groups were openly rejected from certain regions in their towns and lived in deteriorating homes without proper maintenance. Leading to a poverty cycle, these actions severely affected the opportunities in the past and present. Although this may seem like a distant era, the issues from the past still resonate in our modern world, which reflects on the effects of redlining and discrimination from the past.

The[a] Red Scare is alluded to as America's dread of socialism and American radicals. The first Red Scare began in the 1920's, World War I had not gone exceptionally well for Russia and the weights of losing the war constrained the Czar to leave. Russia expected to shape another administration and in November of 1917, where Lenin drove the Bolshevik specialists insurgency to frame the socialist party(Burnett 2000 ). Karl Marx's thoughts had been outstanding all through the world[b] since 1848 however had never been effectively actualized. The Western United forces needed to establish Czar Nicholas back to control in Russia, however their endeavors were futile. The Bolsheviks had killed the whole regal family, and had gradually taken control of the country(Burnett 2000).

In the 1950’s Austin was a segregated city in all aspects, by this I mean housing, schools, hotels, parks, and public transportation. This segregation forced African Americans to provide services for themselves. This designated “Negro District” was made up of 150 small thriving businesses and two colleges. These colleges were Tillotson College and Samuel Houston Colleges; by 1940 the African American population had grown to include 14,861 residents. However, by 1940 there was a new growing population in the Austin area; the new residents that were expanding the east section of town were the Mexican Americans. The new influx of Mexican Americans were finding resident in the east side of the city, they were relegated to the east Austin barrios. These barrios were south of eleventh street, as they began to flock to Austin in large numbers they began to thrive. By the late 1940s and early 1950’s they began to own homes and businesses, many of these businesses were restaurants. Mexican Americans also faced discrimination similar to that of the African American