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Edited on Tue Nov-15-11 06:15 PM by KansDem
No wonder why CC was blacklisted... On edit: a partial list of blacklisted Americans-- A few of the more notable people who were blacklisted or suffered some other persecution during McCarthyism are listed here:
Nelson Algren, writer<48>
Elmer Bernstein, composer and conductor<49>
David Bohm, physicist and philosopher<50>
Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright, screenwriter
Charlie Chaplin, actor and director<51>
Aaron Copland, composer<52>
Bartley Crum, attorney<53>
Howard Da Silva, actor<54>
Jules Dassin, director<55>
Dolores del Río, actress<56>
W. E. B. Du Bois, civil rights activist and author<57>
Howard Fast, writer<58>
Carl Foreman, writer of High Noon
John Garfield, actor<52>
Jack Gilford, actor<54>
Ruth Gordon, actress<54>
Lee Grant, actress<59>
Dashiell Hammett, author<52>
Elizabeth Hawes, clothing designer, author, equal rights activist<60>
Lillian Hellman, playwright<52>
Lena Horne, singer <54>
Langston Hughes, writer<52>
Sam Jaffe, actor<52>
Theodore Kaghan, diplomat<61>
Garson Kanin, writer and director<52>
Benjamin Keen, historian<62>
Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and stripper<52>
Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and physicist<63>
Arthur Laurents, playwright<54>
Philip Loeb, actor<64>
Joseph Losey, director<52>
John F. Melby, diplomat<65>
Burgess Meredith, actor<52>
Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist<52>
Zero Mostel, actor<52>
J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, scientific director of the Manhattan Project<66>
Dorothy Parker, writer<52>
Linus Pauling, chemist, winner of two Nobel prizes<67>
Samuel Reber, diplomat<68>
Martin Ritt, actor and director<69>
Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, writer, political activist<70>
Edward G. Robinson, actor<52>
Waldo Salt, screenwriter<71>
Pete Seeger, folk singer<52>
Artie Shaw, jazz musician<52>
Irwin Shaw, writer<54>
William L. Shirer, journalist<72>
Lionel Stander, actor<73>
Paul Sweezy, economist and founder-editor of Monthly Review<74>
Charles W. Thayer, diplomat<75>
Tsien Hsue-shen, physicist<76> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyismI never knew Aaron Copland was blacklisted?!! :wtf: |
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