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Blacklisting of authors --- Blacklisting of entertainers --- Communism
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Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?' That question was to be repeated endlessly during the anti-Communist investigations carried out by the House Committee on un-American Activities (HUAC) in the early 1950's. The refusal of ten members of the film industry to answer the question in 1947 led to the decision by studio bosses to fire them and never to hire known Communists in the future. The Hearings led to scores of actors, writers and directors being named as Communists or sympathisers. All were blacklisted and fired. Hollywood's Blacklists is a history of the pol
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If it's true that we're known by the company we keep, then Texas humorist, First Amendment Advocate, "Hee Haw's homespun philosopher, and 1950's media blacklist buster, John Henry Faulk's character was first quality. His story intersects some of America's best and brightest: Eugene Victor Debs, the "Texas Triumvirate," Edward R. Murrow, Mark Goodson, Louis Nizer, Myrna Loy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joe Papp, and host of others. Consciously risking a lucrative television career, he seized "the buz...
Authors, American --- Blacklisting of authors --- Blacklisting of entertainers --- Entertainers --- Authors --- Mass media --- History --- Blacklisting --- Censorship --- Faulk, John Henry.
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