The personal tragedy for the Ginger family came as a result of what is definitely one of Harvard’s strongest—and least publicized—anticommunist actions during the McCarthy era.
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In several high-profile cases during the early 1950s, the University took action against those it thought might be Reds. In 1953 Harvard suspended Medical School Assistant Professor of Anatomy Helen Deane Markham when administrators decided they could "no longer reasonably believe that she is free from Communist domination."
But in no other known instance did the University force out a member of the faculty for refusing to talk about his political associations.
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