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Bonewell, Shaffer Allen. Manipulating Fear: The Texas State Government and the Second
Red Scare, 1947-1954. Master of Science (History), May 2019, 114 pp., bibliography, 57 primary
sources, 31 secondary sources.
Between 1947 and 1954, the Texas State Legislature enacted a series of eight highly
restrictive anti-communist laws. Designed to protect political, military, and economic structures
in the state from communist infiltration, the laws banned communists from participating the
political process, required registration of all communists who entered the state and eventually
outlawed the Communist Party. Drawn from perceptions about Cold War events, such as the
Truman Doctrine and the Korean War, and an expanding economy inside of Texas, members of
the state legislature perceived that communism represented a threat to their state. However,
when presented with the opportunity to put the laws into action during the 1953 Port Arthur
Labor Strike, the state government failed to bring any charges against those who they labeled
as communists. Instead of actually curtailing the limited communist presence inside of the
state, members of the state government instead used the laws to leverage political control
throughout the state by attacking labor, liberals in education and government, and racial
minorities with accusations of communism.
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Bonewell, Shaffer Allen. Manipulating Fear: The Texas State Government and the Second Red Scare, 1947-1954, thesis, May 2019; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505165/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .