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Ku Klux Klan, a potent force in national politics following the Red Scare of 1919–20.†
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
In 1946, President Truman appointed, by executive order, a blue-ribbon committee to study the civil rights problem in all its aspects, and the committee’s report, “To Secure These Rights,” called not only for a permanent FEPC, abolition of the poll tax, and federal laws against lynchings but also for the establishment of a permanent Commission on C
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Arthur C. Brooks • From Strength to Strength
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Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
THE LAST WILL BE FIRST
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
In fact, Wilson tried to strengthen the Espionage Act with a provision giving broad censorship powers directly to the president.
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Room 219, LeConte Hall.
Kai Bird • American Prometheus
It was the proposal of a fanatic.