Witch Hunts

Witch Hunts
Throughout history there have been many instances where a group of people have been singled out for discrimination. The Salem Witch Trials, The Holocaust, and McCarthy's witch-hunt are just a few examples of such prejudice. Arthur Miller's The Crucible used the story of the Salem Witch Trials to point out the injustices of the anti-Communism movement of the early 1950s.
Joseph McCarthy was born in 1908 in Northern Wisconsin. He worked his way through law school and shortly after graduation became one of Wisconsin's youngest judges. During World War II he volunteered for the M…