The New York State Senate includes Addams on a list of "Radicals and Pacifists"
Description
A foreboding of the Red Scare, Archibald Stevenson, a staffer of a New York State Senate sub-committee investigating German propaganda during the First World War, produces a list of "Radicals and Pacifists," which includes Addams and her long-time associate Lilian Wald. The product of the investigation, the Lusk Report links peace and women's groups to communism and Soviet Bolshevism. Addams is quick to respond: "I am a pacifist. I am a member of many pacifist organizations - national and international and head of several of them, but I have been loyal to my country." Thus begins a decade in which Addams is subject to broad condemnation for her peace activism and alleged associations with radicals. (Quoted in Davis, 253.)
Date
1919-01-01
Source
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