- House Un-American Activities Committee and Censorship
Details on the 1947 HUAC investigations of Hollywood personalities and censoring suspected Communists. Ten writers and directors were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to give testimony.
www.moderntimes.com/palace/huac.htm
- Hollywood Blacklisting - Seeing Red
Interviews with famous Hollywood personalities who share their experiences of the Blacklist. In transcript and Real Audio versions.
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/blacklist_10-24.html
- Blacklist - A Different Look at The 1947 HUAC Hearings
Walter Bernstein, an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s, presents an alternative point of view on the 1947 HUAC hearings.
www.moderntimes.com/palace/blacklist.htm
- Hollywood Blacklist
Dan Georgakas describes the background and investigations of Hollywood radicals by the House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 and 1951.
www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html
- Blacklisting Hollywood's Communists: A Qualified Defense
Article condemning the Hollywood Blacklist which saw ten writers and directors being cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to give testimony.
www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/blist.htm
- Blacklists and Other Economic Sanctions
Ellen Schrecker writes about McCarthyism in the early 1950s and the idealogy, methodology, and legal issues surrounding it.
www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schrecker-blacklist.html
- Victor Navasky's Naming Names
Background information and the social costs of the Hollywood Blacklisting.
www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/navasky-main.html
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