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He was a composer
He was black listed because he Voiced support for the American Communist Party during his lifetime.

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American director Elia Kazan is best known for his successes on stage and in film. Kazan's career was interrupted by his interactions with the House Un-American Activities Committee, a federal committee that was investigating Americans ties to Communism at the time.

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She was a writer
She was forced to testify in government hearings because she was part of the radical political group

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Famous for his character "The Tramp," the sweet little man with a bowler hat, mustache and cane. He was on the blacklist for being a communist sympathizer.

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Leonard Bernstein was famous for conducting. Bernstein’s name showed up in the Prominent Individuals section of the Security Index, which G. Gordon Liddy once elegantly defined as “a list of those individuals, citizen or alien, whom the FBI believed dangerous to have at large in the event of a war or major confrontation with the Soviet Union.” In other words, in the event of a national emergency, everyone on the Security Index would be detained. Naming Bernstein a communist.

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Paul Robeson was famous for being an acclaimed 20th-century performer. Robeson spoke out against racism and became a world activist, yet was blacklisted during the paranoia of McCarthyism in the 1950s. Robeson was labeled a communist and was staunchly criticized by government officials as well as some African-American leaders.

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He was a screenwriter
He was blacklisted for refusing to testify before HUAC.

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Lena was famous for being an actress and singer.
She was on the blacklist because she hung out with Paul Robeson, who was communist, and she was not.

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He was an American playwright, who combined social awareness with a searching concern for his characters' inner lives. He ended up on the blacklist when he defies the House Committee on Un-American Activities and refuses to name suspected communists.

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He was famous for being a writer
He was black listed for bailing out communist and not telling where he got the bail money.