The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. At the time of this writing, there have been two Red Scares in America. The first began in 1918 in response to heightened fears after the Russian Revolution, the increasing power of organized labor, immigration, attacks on Black communities (whose resistance was seen as orchestrated by Bolsheviks socialists), and anarchist bombings around the nation targeting law enforcement and businessmen who opposed them.
