The excesses of the Joseph McCarthy era brought about the Freedom Agenda, a League program to promote discussion of individual liberties under the Constitution, and a study of the federal loyalty-security system.

The American Legion attacked the LWV's Freedom Agenda because someone had accused one of its authors of communist sympathies. The Milwaukee Journa1, one of many newspapers supporting the League, said: "They (Legion officials)... have blustered into battle with the League of Women Voters of the U.S. Their own choice of a battleground being patently untenable, they can only retire in disorder, looking foolish..."

League said: "Believing as it (League) does in the principle of free speech and free examination of all ideas, it will not yield to intimidation, oppression, or false charges."

Concern about the depletion of natural resources appeared on the National Program in 1950, and focused more precisely on water beginning in 1956.

LWVMN efforts were concentrated on revising the Minnesota Constitution by convention. Since the Legislature was not persuaded, it finally supported revision by amendment. The Home Rule Article was a success, as was defeat of a reapportionment amendment the LWV considered inadequate.

Locally, the League concerned itself with city City Charter, adequate funding for schools, libraries, parks, welfare and general government purposes. It also published its first handbook on city government, Minneapolis Is Your Business.