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McCarran Internal Security Act
The
McCarran Act
or
Internal Security Act
of
1951
required
communist
and communist front organizations to register with the
Attorney General
. Members of these groups could not become citizens. Citizen-members could be denaturalized in five years.
Congress
overrode President
Harry Truman
's veto.
See also:
Alien Registration Act
McCarthyism
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