this setback the Minute Women remained active throughout the remainder of the 1950s and into the 1960s. They played a major role in stoking the 1956 controversy over the Alaska Mental Health Bill (HR 6376), claiming that the bill was an attempt by Congress to give the government authority to abduct citizens at will and imprison them in concentration camps in Alaska. The group finally faded away as the nation turned against McCarthyism and the anti-Communist hysteria diminished. See also American Public Relations Forum Women in conservatism in the United States References 1949 establishments in the United States Anti-communist organizations in the United States Conservative organizations in the United States Far-right organizations in the United States Organizations established in 1949