Gunther spoke of the need to "expose the Reds" through "education" in the form an "ABC movement," which inspired the name.
[1] ABC was chartered by lawyer Harry Alan Sherman in November 1947 as a "non-profit organization to combat Communism."
security legislation as may be necessary to eliminate the threat posed by Communism to the American way of life.
"[1] The organization soon began to identify Communists or "left-wing sympathizers," whose names the local newspapers then published.
[5] Steven Nelson, one of the communists sent to jail in the McCarthy-era prosecutions, recalled his sedition trial under Judge Harry M. Montgomery, a member of ABC: I asked the judge to tell me if it wasn't a fact that he was one of the founders of the Americans Battling Communism, an organization which had demanded my arrest and circulated propaganda against me.