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001474422 02470 $$a10.2979/imh.2023.a905288$$2DOI
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001474422 245__ $$aNative Fascism: Evansville’s 1948 Wallace Riot
001474422 260__ $$bIndiana University Press
001474422 269__ $$aSeptember 2023
001474422 300__ $$a30
001474422 520__ $$aIn April 1948, Progressive Party presidential candidate Henry A. Wallace arrived in Indiana to much controversy. The conservative state did not welcome Wallace, and veterans’ organizations actively organized to disrupt his speaking engagements. On April 6, at the Progressive Party’s Evansville campaign event, a mob attacked Wallace supporters, causing injuries and pushing the isolated town into the national spotlight. In the wake of the riot, a local professor was fired for his involvement in the Wallace campaign, and the radical CIO Local 813 became the subject of U. S. House committee hearings. Anticommunist hysteria gripped the Evansville community. What happened in Evansville on April 6 was part of a populist fascism in the United States propelled by anti-communism and enacted by veterans’ organizations. While national politicians dominate histories of anti-communism, some of the greatest damage done during the 1940s and 1950s occurred when other Americans, specifically veterans’ groups, violated the constitutional rights of their fellow citizens.
001474422 6531_ $$aFascism, Anticommunism, 1948 election, Henry Wallace, Evansville
001474422 7001_ $$aDenise Lynn$$uUniversity of Southern Indiana
001474422 773__ $$tIndiana Magazine of History
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