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Lena Horne was an African American jazz and pop singer, dancer, actor, and civil rights activist during the 1950's. She ran up against institutional racism, and her frustrations drove her to join up with a variety of activist groups, many of which were populated by political radicals and communists. She wasn't a Party member, but Horne was found guilty by association and blacklisted after her name appeared in "Red Channels" in 1950.

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Waldo Salt was an American screenwriter, winner of Academy Awards for Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home. In the year of 1938, he Joined the American Communist Party. He was blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House of Committee on Un-American activities in 1951. This all started because he joined the American Communist Party. At this time he was unable to work in Hollywood, but, he secretly wrote for the British television series The Adventure of Robin Hood .

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Lillian Hellman was a playwright and screenwriter who wrote about injustices, exploitation and selfishness. She was blacklisted in the 1950s for her leftist activism. Though she was blacklisted, she still continued to write abut all of the injustices around her. She soon started to move away for political dramas and began writing her memoirs. She then became a teacher she taught at many colleges, some including Harvard and Yale.

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Charlie Chaplin was a silent screen icon. After he donated money to the defense fund for Dalton Trumbo, famed screenwriter who was blacklisted, and the Hollywood Ten, he was publicly announced as a communist supporter and blacklisted. He decided to cut ties with America after he was denied his reentry visa to the United States after a trip abroad.

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Elia Kazan was a director that won 2 Oscars, 3 Tony Awards and 4 Golden Globes from 1934-1936 he was a member of the American Communist Party. He wasn't blacklisted because he gave names of actors that were in the communist party with him.

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Paul Robeson was a lawyer, athlete, actor, singer, and a civil rights activist. He was blacklisted after refusing to testify. Many people in the entertainment industry were suspected to be apart of communist affairs.  Robeson was apart of racial political affairs. He supported Pan- Africanisim, and sang for the soldiers during the  Spanish American war. He visited the soviet union several times during the 1930's. His mother resided there, and him and his son were fluent in Russian. His relationship with Russia was very controversial and many believed he was a communist sympathizer.

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Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist. His youthful tendency to sign up for nearly every left-leaning political group, which earned him a FBI file that would follow him for most of his career. He was accused of being a Communist; to get his name off of the list, he had to sign an affidavit stating that he was not a Communist.

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Dashiell Hammet was an American author of hardboiled fiction with detective novels. He served as a trustee of the Leftist Civil Rights Congress and refused to cooperate with Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations about his ties to Communism. Hammett's run-ins with the government caused him a place on the blacklist.

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Aaron Copland was a composer. he was blacklisted because he had supported the communist party ticket in the 1936 presidential election.

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Arthur Miller was a playwright-er and essayist he is known for his playwright named the "crucible". It depicts the United States suppressing communism and radical leftest activity in America. He worked with Elia Kazan to make the play. The play was controversial because it advocates for anti- communist hysteria. He refused to testify, but his friend Elia Kazan was apart of the communist party.