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    The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the...
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    on the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) from its formation as the "Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities" in 1938 until...
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  • Adventures of an American Theater. In the 1950s, many of the former members were called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Those who...
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    Ingeborg Rapoport (category American communists)
    when the House Un-American Activities Committee launched an investigation of Rapoport and her husband for engaging in communist activities, they left...
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  • Joseph Weinberg (category Jewish American physicists)
    22, 2002) was an American physicist. After the Second World War Weinberg was accused by the House Un-American Activities Committee of spying on behalf...
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    Dorothy Comingore (category Use American English from July 2020)
    declined to answer questions when she was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952. Margaret Louise Comingore was born in Los Angeles...
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    National Committee of the Causes and Cure of War (NCCCW). Women Strike for Peace played a crucial role in bringing down the House Un-American Activities Committee...
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    Friendly Persuasion (1956 film) (category American Civil War films)
    Wilson in his testimony as an "unfriendly witness" at the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and by director Frank Capra, who was seeking to...
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    Soviet Negro Republic (category African-American leftism)
    activists in 1930s America. In 1945, the former leader of the Communist Party USA told the House Un-American Activities Committee that these proposals...
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    John E. Rankin (category Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi)
    Japanese Americans in the US and its territories in what he called "concentration camps". He later helped to establish the House Un-American Activities Committee...
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    Dalton Trumbo (category 20th-century American male writers)
    Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of alleged Communist influences...
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    subversion of American institutions. McCarthy's hearings are often incorrectly conflated with the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)...
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    Humphrey Bogart (category Use American English from May 2021)
    organized the Committee for the First Amendment (a delegation to Washington, D.C.) opposing what he saw as the House Un-American Activities Committee's harassment...
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  • 1947, Josephson's brother Leon was subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and found guilty of Contempt of Congress when he refused...
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    Hawaii Democratic Revolution of 1954 (category Japanese-American history)
    strike that year, the territorial legislature requested the House Un-American Activities Committee to investigate the strikes that had become frequent in the...
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    Jerome Robbins (category Use American English from July 2022)
    Moves. In 1950, Robbins was called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), suspected of Communist sympathies. Robbins, though...
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    Gale Sondergaard (category Use American English from September 2021)
    League. Retrieved August 3, 2014. "Alison's House". IBDB. The Broadway League. Retrieved August 3, 2014. "American Dream". IBDB. The Broadway League. Retrieved...
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    Allen "Farina" Hoskins (category 20th-century American male actors)
    then called for questioning by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). HUAC was a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives created in 1938...
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  • National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee (NCA-HUAC) formed as a group opposing the House Un-American Activities Committee (known...
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    support of the Hollywood Ten during the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). It was founded by screenwriter Philip Dunne, actress...
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    customary requirement being that they testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and name names, which the vast majority refused to...
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    Arthur Miller (category 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights)
    received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and married Marilyn Monroe. In 1980, he received the St...
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    Hazel Scott (category 20th-century American pianists)
    to clear her name, Scott voluntarily appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) on September 22, 1950, and insisted on reading a...
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  • Conde McGinley (category American conspiracy theorists)
    S. Truman. This campaign led to an investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, the eldest of three surviving...
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    Frank Wilkinson (category American civil rights activists)
    resolution deploring his refusal to answer and calling upon the House Un-American Activities Committee to come to L.A. to investigate the Housing Authority. The...
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    Anne Revere (category Use American English from October 2021)
    critically acclaimed films. An outspoken critic of the House Un-American Activities Committee, her name appeared in Red Channels: The Report on Communist...
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  • Guilty by Suspicion (category American legal drama films)
    a 1991 American period drama film about the Hollywood blacklist, McCarthyism, and the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Written...
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    Ring Lardner Jr. (category Use American English from November 2022)
    after his appearance as an "unfriendly" witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) leading to Lardner being found guilty of contempt...
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    source, Congressman Francis E. Walter, chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), said Martin and Mitchell were "sex deviates", prompting...
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    J. Edward Bromberg (category American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent)
    Communist Party led to a defiant appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee, shortly before his death. Bromberg is considered a victim...
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