. "Freedom House was highly critical of McCarthyism.[16][8] During the 1950s and 1960s, it supported the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and its leadership included several prominent civil rights activists???though it was critical of civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. for their anti-war activism.[17] It supported Andrei Sakharov, other Soviet dissidents, and the Solidarity movement in Po" . . . .