Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
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A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1998-01-01
Runtime: 54 mins
Director: Alexandra Isles
Writer: Alexandra Isles
Spoken language: English
Genres: Documentary, History
Original title: Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
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Cast
Morgan Freeman
Rosetta LeNoire
Dick Campbell
Frederick O'Neal
Ossie Davis
Paul Robeson
Joseph Wershba
J. Edgar Hoover
Jackie Robinson
Hazel Scott
Adam Clayton Powell III
Sidney Poitier
Canada Lee
Gertrude Jeannette
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