Release Date

01 Jan, 1998

Runtime

00:54: (HH:MM)

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.

Original Title

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

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Actors

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

Erik Barnouw

Gregory Abbott

Harry Belafonte

Crew

Bill Wander

Rick Bradley

Dovie Powell Banks

Alexandra Isles

Cassandra Barbour

Doug Rossini

William Miles

Denis Maloney

Daniel Liss

Paul Koestner

Kelvin Green

Marcos Levy

Susan Walsh

Alexandra Isles