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| Date: | 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Philleo Nash (playing the guitar), Presidential adviser on Minority Affairs, entertains President Harry Truman (in the sunglasses), with folk songs during ... |
| Date: | 10 10 1953 |
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| Description: | As chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee Senator Joseph R. McCarthy traveled to New York City to hold closed hearings on alleged Communist espiona... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg received a death sentence in 1951, not long after Joseph R. McCarthy burst into the headlines with his charges a... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee billboard advertising a lecture by Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party-USA. The sign reads "Win the War Rally! Earl Browder,... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Myles Horton watching as the local sheriff puts a padlock on Highlander Folk School, following a trial in which Highlander was accused of propagating Commu... |
| Date: | 02 02 1980 |
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| Description: | Protest march called in response to the murder of five activists, labor organizers, and members of the Communists Workers Party by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) o... |
| Date: | 05 01 1961 |
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| Description: | Frank Wilkinson and Carl Braden at the time of their surrender to federal authorities. Both men had refused to testify to before the House Un-American Acti... |
| Date: | 01 08 1965 |
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| Description: | The investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee did not end in the 1950s. Here are (left to right) Donna Allen of the Women's Strike for P... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a graffiti painted wall that reads, "Pill" and "Only Revolution Ends War!" framed by hammer and sickles. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Hong Kong police with jeep who followed journalist Cecil Brown as he traveled along the border with Communist China. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | President Sukarno of Indonesia (under the umbrella) escorts Nikita Khruschev (in the white suit), visiting Soviet premier, to inspect some new construction... |
| Date: | 09 1951 |
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| Description: | A British soldier or police officer and a civilian on the bridge between the British area of Hong Kong and Communist China. |
| Date: | 09 1951 |
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| Description: | A hill in the countryside near Hong Kong, showing the fence that marked the border with Communist China. Two children are on a path on the side of the hill... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Ramon Magsaysay (in the wide-brimmed hat), then secretary of defense and later the President of the Philippines, during the campaign against the communist ... |
| Date: | 12 01 1975 |
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| Description: | President Gerald Ford being officially greeted at the airport by Deng Xiao Ping. Mrs. Ford stands on the President's right; on the far left are Secretary o... |
| Date: | 08 16 1952 |
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| Description: | Dave and Carol Leudtke react to some high jinks done to their vehicle. |
| Date: | 02 19 1958 |
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| Description: | Hollington K. Tong, Nationalist China Ambassador to the United States (left) and O.C. Akre, Madison representative of Northwest Orient Airlines (center) ar... |
| Date: | 09 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Movie and TV actor, Adolphe Menjou, right, with William Doudna, journalist for the Wisconsin State Journal. In 1947, Menjou was a witness in the Hou... |
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