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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Member of the Communist Party?

Autoworker Basil Gordon kneels on the sidewalk outside a Los Angeles Chrysler Corporation plant in July 1950 after receiving a beating from fellow workers. Gordon and two other workers were attacked when they refused to say whether they belonged to the Communist Party.

Source: AP/Wide World Photos.

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