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was an American bass singer and actor who became involved with the Civil Rights Movement. At Rutgers College, he was an outstanding American football player, and then had an international career in singing, with a distinctive, powerful, deep bass voice, as well as acting in theater and movies. 

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Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film.
After being blacklisted for refusing to co-operate when called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Chaplin’s career was dealt its deathblow when J. Edgar Hoover began to feed classified information and rumours to his friend, the staunchly conservative and enormously powerful Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper  – who, having long despised the ‘unpatriotic’ Chaplin, was only too happy to abet

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Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive worldwide acclaim. In 1952, the Prominent Individuals section of the Security Index was discontinued, and Bernstein entered a state of limbo, with a political cloud still hanging over him. Barry Seldes, in his book on Bernstein’s politics, says that the conductor was blacklisted at the CBS network and that his performing career probably suffered as a result.

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Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as "the Dean of American Composers." Because of his leftist views, which had included his support of the Communist Party USA ticket during the 1936 presidential election and his strong support of Progressive Party candidate Henry A Wallace during the 1948 presidential election, Copland was investigated by the FBI during the Red Scare of the 1950s. He was included on an FBI list of 151 artists thought to have Communist associations and found himself Blacklisted, with A Lincoln Portrait withdrawn from the 1953 inaugural concert for President Eisenhower.

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Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright, essayist, and figure in twentieth-century American theatre. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge.Miller broke with Eliza Kazan over his decision to give names of former members of the American Communist Party to the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Miller was himself blacklisted by Hollywood when he refused to testify in front of the HUAC. However, this did not stop his plays being performed on stage as Broadway refused to impose a blacklist.

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Elia Kazan was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". He was born in Istanbul, to Cappadocian Greek parents

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was an American bass singer and actor who became involved with the Civil Rights Movement. At Rutgers College, he was an outstanding American football player, and then had an international career in singing, with a distinctive, powerful, deep bass voice, as well as acting in theater and movies.

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Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African American jazz and pop music singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. How they ended up on the Blacklist: By the mid-1950s, Horne was disenchanted with Hollywood and increasingly focused on her nightclub career. She only made two major appearances for MGM during the 1950s: Duchess of Idaho (which was also Eleanor Powell's final film); and the 1956 musical Meet Me in Las Vegas. She was blacklisted during the 1950s for her affiliations in the 1940s with communist-backed groups. She would subsequently disavow communism.

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(June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She famously was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52.

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"Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey" is worth watching for the scenes from "Midnight Cowboy," which is up there with Salt's few memorable works, and for the recollections of the director John Schlesinger, the actor Jon Voight and Mr. Salt himself about his part in turning James Leo Herlihy's novel into an Academy Award-winning movie. He was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism .

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Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, and the Continental Op. How they ended up on the Blacklist:

During the 1950s, Hammett was investigated by congress. He testified on March 26, 1953, before the house un- american activities committee about his own activities but refused to cooperate with the committee. No official action was taken, but his stand led to his being blacklisted along with others who were blacklisted as a result of McCarthyism .Hammett became an alcoholic before working in advertising and alcoholism continued to trouble him until 1948, when he quit after his doctor's orders.