The Red Scare in 1950s Baltimore
Presented by Bill Barry
The Red Scare of the 1950s hit Maryland with a special focus on workers at Bethlehem Steel’s Baltimore County plant at Sparrows Point. This talk covers the 1957 HUAC hearings at the Point, attacks on individual workers as well as the steelworkers union, and the lasting impact on children of the accused workers.
Bill Barry is the retired director of labor studies at CCBC-Dundalk, a former union organizer, and a longtime presenter of labor and American history. His ongoing history project on Sparrows Point steelworkers is available online.
