About This Lesson
The Harry Bridges Project - Lesson Four
But was Bridges a communist? He went through 21 years of trials and hearings as America went through a “Red Scare’ and McCarthyism, but in 1955 Bridges became a citizen He also led his union through World War Two, went through his first divorce and faced President Truman and the Taft-Hartley Act, that restricted the power of unions. Is this a good thing?
