Join us every first Wednesday at 1:30 PM for Senior Wednesday at the Museum of World Treasures!

Event Details

• Date: Wednesday, March 5 at 1:30 PM
• Time: 1:30 PM
• Location: Museum of World Treasures [Get Directions]

Cost

• Museum Members: Free
• Non-Members: $4 per person plus tax

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Attending Information

• Open to all ages
• No need to register; simply walk in!
• Light refreshments provided.

Talk Summary

Although most people think of the 1950s and McCarthyism when they hear the term “Red Scare,” the United States also experienced a Red Scare after World War I. Under the direction of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, the U.S. government conducted mass raids against radical organizations with the goal of deporting immigrants, especially those from Southern and Eastern Europe. This talk will examine how immigrants accused of being communists and anarchists joined with progressive American allies to oppose mass deportations in the 1920s.

Speaker Bio

Suzanne Orr is Associate Professor of History at Kansas State University. She received her PhD from the University of Notre Dame, where she studied twentieth-century American history, immigration, and gender. She has published in the Journal of the West and the Journal of American Ethnic History (forthcoming Spring 2025), and previously served as the managing editor of Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains. Her first book, The Politics of Asylum: Reds, Refugees, and Humanitarianism, is under contract with University of North Carolina Press.

Senior Wednesdays are informational and entertaining sessions, designed for active seniors and offered by a collaboration of Wichita institutions. To learn more, visit:

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