found: African American National Biography, accessed February 27, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Moss, Annie Lee; cause celèbre, civil servant, washerwoman / laundress, sharecropper / farm laborer; born 09 August 1905 in Chester, South Carolina, United States; joined the Washington Cafeteria Workers Union, later ejected from the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) for having communist leadership; became clerk with the Army Signal Corps (1950); appeared on FBI communist membership lists; operated a telegraph-typewriter that transmitted coded messages at the Pentagon; came to public attention when the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by McCarthy, looked into alleged communist infiltration of the Signal Corps; became a celebrated witness during Senator McCarthy's investigation of Communism in government (1954); the Moss case, followed by the televised Army-McCarthy hearings, contributed to the erosion of McCarthy's credibility, resulting in McCarthy's censure by the Senate (1954); died 15 January 1996 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
