The United States Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations was a list drawn up on April 3, 1947 at the request of the United States Attorney General (and later Supreme Court judge) Tom C. Clark. The list was intended to be a compilation of organizations seen as "subversive" by the United States government. Among those were: alleged Communist fronts, the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazi Party.
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