Thank you all for your contributions. This posting will be brief as I have to get to my drawing board shortly ... I do make money as "The Deck Man." But later on, I need to make another contribution that I hope will not be a thread creep. But I know that it WILL be a thread creep, if we have to limit this topic only to the Weavers and the McCarthy era.

In my life, and I suspect in many others, so MUCH a part of this experience also involved the "Negro - Black - integration" movement. For me, it's impossible to separate the two. As someone said, "The issues we felt so strongly were the same issues that the communists used for their own purposes. Therefore, anyone who raised those issues was branded a communist..."

Bob Nelson (I'm in the yellow house, second from the corner, on the West side of the street ... I'll have the coffee on!)