Describe the impact of the postwar demobilization and "Red Scare" on African Americans, labor unions, and political dissidents
What will be an ideal response?
Postwar inflation and the loss of government sanction of their activities damaged labor. Employers also encouraged middle class Americans to associate labor organizers and strikers with communism. African Americans were victims of vicious race riots in northern cities and of terrorism and lynchings in the South. Political dissenters were hounded by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer during the postwar "Red Scare."
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