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Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Jan 01, 1998 54m
7.7
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Synopsis

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.

Title Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
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Keywords racism, post world war ii, harlem renaissance, mccarthyism, artistic risk, black community, hollywood blacklist
Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson

Self (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (archive footage)
Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

Self (archive footage)
Hazel Scott

Hazel Scott

Self (archive footage)
Adam Clayton Powell III

Adam Clayton Powell III

Self - son of Hazel Scott
Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
Canada Lee

Canada Lee

Stephen Kumalo (archive footage)
Erik Barnouw

Erik Barnouw

Self - broadcast historian
Gregory Abbott

Gregory Abbott

Newsreel Narrator (voice) (archive sound)