Federal, state, and local authorities, as well as, private groups all started a hunt for subversives leading the way was President Truman. In 1947, Truman ordered an investigation of the loyalty of three million government workers, because his attorney general drew up a list of nearly three hundred subversives (The Red Scare, web). They would question their reading habits, if they had African-American friends, or if they sympathized with the under privileged. If their lifestyle or friends appeared too radical, they would lose their jobs. It ruined numerous lives. People were fired based on anonymous tips; which people labeled disloyal, people would label each other and the government would not check if it is true. The government used the 1940
