I. Introduction – Xenophobia, Racism, and Anticommunism in Early 20th Century America

II. Black Scare: WWI, Black Migration, and Reaction

III. The Red Scare

-- The National Context
-- The Red Scare in the States: New York and the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities (Lusk Committee)

Nativism; de jure and de facto segregation; migration clubs; the "New Negro"; Chicago Defender; Ida Wells-Barnett; Booker T. Washington; W. E. B. DuBois; NAACP; Marcus Garvey; Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.); “Harlem Hellfighters” (369th Infantry); Henry Johnson
Peter Kropotkin; Third International (Comintern); Nicola Sacco; Bartolomeo Vanzetti; Judge Webster Thayer; the Buford; American Legion; Emma Goldman; A. Mitchell Palmer; J. Edgar Hoover; Luigi Galleani; anarchism; Lusk Committee; Louis Post