https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0 Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2018-03-05 15:21:41 UTC 2026-01-30 22:43:49 UTC hello@padlet.com 9160311 https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238136582 Dashiell Hamett was an American author of crime novels for which he is known as a literary legend. He was also a WWI veteran, screenwriter, and political activist.
After starting a fund for people who'd been imprisoned for poitical reasons Hammett himself was taken to court and found guilty of "contempt of court". Soon after he served his sentence he testified before the House of Un-American Activities commitee where he admitted to Communism, but since he wouldn't give up others he was blacklisted.]]> 2018-03-05 15:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238136582 915644 https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238410822 Elia 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" 
Kazan appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and named eight of his old friends from the Group Theater who in the 1930s, along with him, had been members of the American Communist Party. ]]> 2018-03-06 00:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238410822 915644 https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238413252 Arthur Miller was an American playwright, essayist, and figure in twentieth-century American theater. 
Miller was blacklisted himself when he refused to testify in front of the House of Un-American Activities Committee.]]> 2018-03-06 01:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238413252 915644 https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238415430 Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music.
Copland left evidence of his Communist leanings, offered in Red Channels, by appearing on a panel at a 1949 Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace. ]]> 2018-03-06 01:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238415430 915644 https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238417516 Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.
Just like Copland, Bernstein's Communist leaning evidence was also offered by Red Channels. Bernstein was affiliated with the Committee to Re-Elect Benjamin J.Davis, a black, socialist New York City councilman which landed him on the Hollywood Blacklist.]]> 2018-03-06 01:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238417516 915644 https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238419251 Charlie Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
The Hollywood blacklist contained the name of Charlie Chaplin who was accused of being a communist by senator McCarthy. Presumable there was a produced file which detailed his subversive political activities since 1922.

]]> 2018-03-06 01:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238419251 9160311 https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238439279 Waldo Salt was an American Academy Award winning screenwrite. He joined the American Communist Party in 1938, and was a civilian consultant to the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II. Salt's career in Hollywood was interrupted when he was blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951.]]> 2018-03-06 03:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238439279 9160311 https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238440837 Lillian Hellman was an American dramatist,screenwriter, playwrite, and political activist. She was also a partner of Dashiell Hammett.
Due to her attendance of some Communist meetings in the 1930s she was called to testify before the HUAC in 1952. She testified and like others' in her position ultimately plead the fifth and denied any accusations of her actually joining the Communist party. She was blacklisted shortly after.]]> 2018-03-06 03:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238440837 9160311 https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238449996 Lena Horne was an African American jazz and pop music singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. 
She avoided the blacklist, which she was going to be placed on after the assumption that she was a communist, though she cleared it up with a letter saying that anything that made here seem communist was only here desire for African American equality.]]> 2018-03-06 04:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238449996 9160311 https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238451799 Paul was an American bass baritone singer and actor. He also played football for Rutgers College. 
He was a political activist and also a civil rights activist, even meeting with Truman to propose an anti-lynching law, which was denied. He was blacklisted after making a statement against what the U.S. wanted to hear. During his hearing with the HUAC he refused to "answer the question many honorable people in America were being arrested for" and said he'd go to, if necessary.]]> 2018-03-06 04:43:05 UTC https://padlet.com/9160311/9gli3zugfwx0/wish/238451799