The Red Scare, Cultural Hegemony

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s, colleges, and the University. Although the institution was put into place for all children, only the rich, upper middle class citizens could afford to send their children to school without reprisal from their labor obligations in the family workplace. In these learning environments as time passed the learning environment became a place to assimilate the native Indian, and keep the lower class of students into a certain knowledge base.
In the 1940s the music we listened to was curtailed by the music industry. The top 40 came into the picture and no longer were music DJ’s allowed to play their favorite music. From this point on, music radio would be programmed, stifled, and dictated to the public. Once again the focus of control for the purpose of “keeping the peasants from revolting”.
After the WWI formally ended on November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war still going on in the US. An ideological war which prompted mass paranoia and caused, among many other things, what would be known as the Red Scare, which began in 1919 and ended in 1921. Red Scare was the label given to the actions of legislation, the race riots, and the hatred and persecution of "subversives" and conscientious objectors during that period of time. It is this hysteria which would find itself repeated several decades later in history when Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accused high government officials and high standing military officers of being communist. Undoubtedly the most important topic of an investigation into a historical occurrence is its inception. What caused the Red Scare?
At the heart of the Red Scare was the conscription law of May 18, 1917, which was put in place during World War I for the armed Forces to be able to conscript more Americans. This law caused many problems for the conscientious objector to WWI, because for one to claim that status, one had to be a member of a "well-recognized"
religious organization, whic...