Communist registration act
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Communist registration acts were laws proposed and often enacted by the United States Congress and many American state legislatures during the Second Red Scare. These laws required members, sympathizers, and affiliated organizations of the Communist Party of the United States to register with the government, ostensibly for the purposes of public safety. Communist registration acts were ultimately made redundant with the Eisenhower's signing of the federal Communist Control Act of 1954, which outlawed the Communist Party altogether.
A partial list of Communist registration acts is as follows:
- Mundt–Ferguson Communist Registration Bill (1950, federal)
- McCarran Internal Security Act, also known as Subversive Activities Control Act (1950, federal)
- Communist Registration Act of 1953 (Delaware)
- Communist Registration Bill of 1952 (Louisiana)
- Trucks Act (Michigan, ca. 1952)
- A Communist registration bill was passed in Wyoming ca. 1955 [1]
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- Communist Registration under the McCarran Act and Self-Incrimination. 1951 Wisconsin Law Review, pp. 704–717, 1951.
- Civil Liberties Docket. Vol. 8, No. 4, August 1963.
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