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Vermont Conversation: Red, white and blacklisted: The Red Scare in Hollywood and Vermont

By David Goodman

Feb 8 2023February 8, 2023

The FBI combed the Green Mountains looking for communists, and the University of Vermont ousted a suspected faculty member.


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Agents pored through the mail of Barre’s Italian community and found that dozens of residents were receiving bundles of foreign newspapers.


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