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Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Mississippi on February 1, 1901. In 1953, Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations to answer questions about Communist influences in his writing. The Subcommittee’s chief counsel, Roy Cohn, expected a simple answer to his question, "Have you ever been a believer in communism?" But for Hughes, the question of his political identity was complex, tied into his personal identity, history, and what it
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Senator Joseph McCarthy, the man who spearheaded the anti-communist witch hunts of the Red Scare, died from complications of alcoholism on this day in 1957. Despite making countless enemies and being censured by his colleagues two years prior, his three funerals—one at St. Matthews Cathedral, one on the floor of the Senate and one in his home town of Appleton, Wisconsin—were well attended. | American Experience | PBS
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