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Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) is an American political organization advocating progressive policies. ADA works for social and economic justice through lobbying, grassroots organizing, research and supporting progressive candidates. ==History== The ADA grew out of a predecessor group, the Union for Democratic Action (UDA). The UDA was formed by former members of the Socialist Party of America and Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies as well as labor union leaders, liberal politicians, theologians, and others who were opposed to the pacifism adopted by most left-wing political organizations in the late 1930s and early 1940s.〔Zuckerman, ''The Wine of Violence: An Anthology on Anti-Semitism,'' 1947, p. 220; Parmet, ''The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement,'' 2005, p. 214, ISBN 0-8147-6711-7; Boyle, ''The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968,'' 1998, p. 49, ISBN 0-8014-8538-X; Brown, ''Niebuhr and His Age: Reinhold Niebuhr's Prophetic Role and Legacy,'' 2002, p. 102, ISBN 1563383756; Ceplair, "The Film Industry's Battle Against Left-Wing Influences, From the Russian Revolution to the Blacklist," ''Film History,'' 2008, 400-401; Libros, ''Hard Core Liberals: A Sociological Analysis of the Philadelphia Americans for Democratic Action,'' 1975, p. 13, ISBN 0870731483.〕〔Brock, ''Americans for Democratic Action: Its Role in National Politics,'' 1962, p. 49.〕 It supported a strongly interventionist, internationalist foreign policy and a pro-union, liberal domestic policy. It was strongly anti-communist as well.〔〔Powers, ''Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism,'' 1998, p. 200-201, ISBN 0-300-07470-0.〕 It undertook a major effort to support left-wing Democratic members of Congress in 1946, but this effort was an overwhelming failure.〔〔Davis, ''The Civil Rights Movement,'' 2000, p. 27, ISBN ISBN 0-631-22043-7.〕〔Halpern, ''UAW Politics in the Cold War Era,'' 1988, p. 138-139, ISBN 0887066712.〕 Though strongly anti-communist, unlike other contemporary liberal groups like the Progressive Citizens of America, who supported cooperation with the Soviet Union, the ADA was still subject to significant McCarthyist scrutiny. The plight of the ADA during that period prompted Eleanor Roosevelt to accept a position as honorary chair of the organization in 1953, and in doing so, put Senator McCarthy in a position in which he would have "call her a communist as well" to continue his inquires into the activities of the group. Because of her actions, many ADA leaders credited her with "saving" the organization.〔(【引用サイトリンク】George Washington University">title=Americans for Democratic Action )〕 James Isaac Loeb (later an ambassador and diplomat in the John F. Kennedy administration), the UDA's executive director, advocated disbanding the UDA and forming a new, more broadly based, mass-membership organization.〔Beinart, ''The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again,'' 2007, p. 4, ISBN 9780522853834.〕〔Libros, ''Hard Core Liberals: A Sociological Analysis of the Philadelphia Americans for Democratic Action,'' 1975, p. 22, ISBN 0870731483.〕 The ADA was formed on January 4, 1947, and the UDA shuttered.〔〔〔Hambly, "The Liberals, Truman, and the FDR as Symbol and Myth," ''The Journal of American History,'' March 1970; Heale, ''American Anticommunism: Combating the Enemy Within, 1830-1970,'' 1990, p. 140, ISBN 0-8018-4050-3.〕 Founding members included: * Reinhold Niebuhr * Hubert Humphrey * John Kenneth Galbraith * Joseph P. Lash * Walter Reuther * Eleanor Roosevelt * Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. * Wilson W. Wyatt 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Americans for Democratic Action」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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