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The McCarthy Era
Ruth Goldberg was denounced as a left-wing activist when she stood for the PTA election
"This was the time of the Cold War and the whole atmosphere of that time was incomprehensible."
Ruth Goldberg tells her story of small-town American politics during the early 1950s during the McCarthy anti-communist era. Married to a Marxist labour lawyer, when she stood for election to local parents teachers association she was denounced as a left-wing activist.
