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It didn't take much to get on the list back then just checking out a copy of the Communist Manifesto from the public library was all it took to get on the list.
by shams93 8y ago
It didn't take much to get on the list back then just checking out a copy of the Communist Manifesto from the public library was all it took to get on the list. A lot of writers who were simply voracious readers with no organizational connections to communists landed on the lists for their reading habits alone.
- e12e 8y agoRelated: "Pete Seeger on being Black Listed in America, 1965: CBC Archives": https://youtu.be/Y0_IME9WsHQ https://youtu.be/Y0_IME9WsHQ
- delinka 8y agoSounds antithetical to the librarians' creed. Can someone who might have worked in a library explain how this information would have been shared with the FBI?