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House Un-American Activities Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA) (1938-1975) was an investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives. The House Committee on Un-American Activities grew from a special investigating committee established in May 1938, chaired by Martin Dies and co-chaired by Samuel Dickstein, himself named in the Venona project as a Soviet agent. The House abolished the committee in 1975 and its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HUAC   (1015 words)

House Un-American Activities Committee The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. The work of the committee continued to decline in importance throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s until the committee itself was renamed the House Internal Security Committee in 1969, prefiguring its eventual abolition in 1975. Reorganized from its previous incarnations as the Fish Committee and the McCormack-Dickstein Committee and with a new chairman, the cantankerous Martin Dies of Texas, HUAC's strident attacks on the Roosevelt administration prior to the outbreak of the war did not suit the political mood of a nation that was largely in favor of FDR's leadership. www.gwu.edu /~erpapers/abouteleanor/q-and-a/glossary/huac.htm   (284 words)

Günter Mayer Background notes to Hanns Eisler's writings in connection with his cross-examination by the House Committe on Un-American Activities in 1947 The House Committee on Un-American Activities interrogated Hanns Eisler in Washington on the 24th, 25th and 26th September, 1947. After he was first cross-examined in Hollywood by a sub-committee of the House Committee on Un-American Activities he was subjected to a smear campaign that went on for five months. She was elected on to the central committee by the seventh, eighth and ninth party congresses (1921, 1923, 1924). www.tagg.org /others/eisler/mayernotes.html   (2817 words)

HUAC (The House Un-American Activities Committee) and the Rise of Anti-Communism When the House on Un-American Activities Committee began its second round of hearings in Hollywood on March 21, 1951 the first witnesses to appear before the House Committee was the actor Larry Parks and director Edward Dmytryk. It said that the Committee's "victory was especially surprising" because it had not been obvious that it would win the case, and that "representatives of the [movie] industry, who appeared before the committee, had stubbornly refused to fire the suspected Communists on their payrolls," (p. The men refused to answer the House Committee's questions and they were cited for contempt and sentenced to between 6-12 months in prison. www.thirdworldtraveler.com /McCarthyism/HUAC_Rise_AntiCommun.html   (8583 words)

McCarthyism The House of Un-American Activities Committee and the courts during appeals disagreed and they all were found guilty of contempt of congress and each was sentenced to between six and twelve months in prison. It was decided that the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), that had been set up by Congress under Martin Dies in 1938 to investigate people suspected of unpatriotic behaviour, would be the best vehicle to discover if people were trying to overthrow the government. In 1947 the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), chaired by J. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAmccarthyism.htm   (5174 words)

House Un-American Activities Committee Hearing of August 3, 1948 Chairman, the Committee on Un-American Activities on August 19, 1947, issued a subpena to be served upon J. Peters calling for his appearance before the committee on October 30 of that year. Miss Bentley testified before our committee and said that in her capacity as courier between Communist headquarters in New York and Washington, I think chronologically she followed you as courier and did that work, she mentioned that she also brought Communist literature and instructions from New York to Washington. Chief of Litigation, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1933 to 1935; assistant general connsel of the WPA in 19B5; chief counsel of the La Follette Civil LibertiE's Committee, 1936 to 1937; special assistant to the United States Attorney General, 1937 and 1938. www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/8-3testimony.html   (7262 words)

CNN Cold War - Historical Document: J. Edgar Hoover testimony The American progress which all good citizens seek, such as old-age security, houses for veterans, child assistance, and a host of others, is being adopted as window dressing by the communists to conceal their true aims and entrap gullible followers. As such, it stands for the destruction of our American form of government; it stands for the destruction of American democracy; it stands for the destruction of free enterprise; and it stands for the creation of a "Soviet of the United States" and ultimate world revolution. I feel that this committee could render a great service to the nation through its power of exposure in quickly spotlighting existing front organizations and those which will be created in the future. www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/06/documents/hoover   (1394 words)

House Un-American Activities Committee House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a committee (1938–75) of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Critics of the committee contended that it disregarded the civil liberties of its witnesses and that it consistently failed to fulfill its primary purpose of recommending new legislation. The committee's methods included pressure on witnesses to name former associates, vague and sweeping accusations against individuals, and the assumption of an individual's guilt because of association with a suspect organization. www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0824313.html   (391 words)

Dalton Trumbo The House Un-American Activities Committee accused Trumbo of membership in the Communist Party (an affiliation he acknowledged years later), and he went to prison in 1950 rather than cooperate with his inquisitors. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was established (1938) as a special committee by the U.S. House of Representatives. The Dies Committee, as it was first called, investigated the German-American Bund and the Silver Shirt Legion, both pro-Nazi organizations, and the U.S. Communist party's infiltration of the Federal Theatre Project and the Federal Writers Project. www.levity.com /corduroy/trumbo.htm   (640 words)

Congressional Committees and Unfriendly Witnesses--by Ellen Schrecker Their activities and the publicity they generated transformed what had initially been a devastating but nonetheless narrowly focused attack on a small political party and its adherents into a wide-ranging campaign that touched almost every aspect of American life. But as the official campaign against American communism intensified and public sympathy for the uncooperative witnesses began to erode, it became increasingly unlikely that the majority of the justices would take an unpopular position on any case that involved the politically sensitive issue of communism. Because the justices at first refused to hear these cases, it was not clear how they would handle the substantive constitutional issues that the committee's activities presented. www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/mccarthy/schrecker4.htm   (2975 words)

Wilson04.htm House Committee on Un-American Activities: "Report on the Communist Party of the United States as an Advocate of Overthrow of Government by Force and Violence." Eightieth Congress; Second Session (1948). House Committee on Un-American Activities: "Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States." Eightieth Congress (1947). House Committee on Un-American Activities: "Investigation of Un-American Activities in the United States." Eightieth Congress (1947). www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/WilsonInventory/Wilson04.htm   (1536 words)

Bring Back the House Committee on Un-American Activities These committees were able to identify those conspiring to aid and abet the activities of both the Communists and the Nazis. These committees would be stymied and eventually undone by the shrewd and concerted assault of radical congressmen, executive branch officials, and well-funded leftist groups such as the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild. The committees seriously crippled the Communist menace, which was why they were destroyed after decades of machinations by the subversives themselves, and their vast network of well appointed friends. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/582474/posts   (1679 words)

HUAC, McCarthy, and the Reds: McCarthyism and the Blacklist 1947 The first wave of hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) occur. Shortly thereafter, McCarthy joins the Senate Housing Committee and goes on the road to speak out against public housing for veterans, extolling the benefits of the pre-fabricated home and offering it as an alternative. With the help of President Eisenhower and Edward Murrow's unedited footage of the hearings, the Army is vindicated and the true nature of McCarthyism is becomes evident to the American public. huac.tripod.com   (623 words)

"You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves": Paul Robeson Appears Before HUAC This morning the Committee resumes its series of hearings on the vital issue of the use of American passports as travel documents in furtherance of the objectives of the Communist conspiracy. If the American warmongers fancy that they could win America’s millions of Negroes for a war against those countries (i.e., the Soviet Union and the peoples‘ democracies) then they ought to understand that this will never be the case. ROBESON: I say that he is as patriotic an American as there can be, and you gentlemen belong with the Alien and Sedition Acts, and you are the nonpatriots, and you are the un-Americans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. historymatters.gmu.edu /d/6440   (3517 words)

disney-huac-testimony.txt The Testimony of Walter E. Disney Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities 24 October, 1947 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introductory Note from Uploader: Please be advised that I am uploading this transcript exactly as it OCR'd (with some minor reformatting) from my source document. I want to congratulate you on the form of entertainment which you have given the American people and given the world and congratulate you for taking time out to come here and testify before this committee. That document is, as was previously mentioned, Peary & Peary's anthology, "The American Animated Cartoon," copyright 1980, published by Dutton, ISBN 0-525-47639-3, now long out of print. filmtv.eserver.org /disney-huac-testimony.txt   (2573 words)

"Subversive Influences" - House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) On November 28, 1967, the subcommittee of the House Committee on Un-American Activities met at 10 a.m. Committee investigator Wheeler returned to the witness stand and testified about an organization called the Afro-American Cultural Association, apparently formed in December 1966, and headed by black nationalist playwright Frank Greenwood, who had formerly been associated with various Communist Party front groups. It harps on police brutality and states that the United States governmental system must be replaced by what it calls socialism. www.aavw.org /protest/subversive_huac_abstract05_excerpt.html   (15603 words)

Amazon.com: Thirty Years of T: Books: United States Congress - House Committee on Un-American Activities,Eric Bentley Amazon.com: Thirty Years of T: Books: United States Congress - House Committee on Un-American Activities,Eric Bentley by United States Congress - House Committee on Un-American Activities, Eric Bentley "One of the first victims of the Un-American Activities Committee was the Federal Theater..." (more) One of the first victims of the Un-American Activities Committee was the Federal Theater. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670701653?v=glance   (899 words)

Resources 15 The Committee: The Extraordinary Career of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Communist Infiltration of Hollywood Motion-Picture Industry Hearing Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, first [-second] session. A Quarter Century of Un-Americana, 1938-1963: A Tragico-Comical Memorabilia of HUAC, House Un-American Activities Committee. darkwing.uoregon.edu /~ppascoe/467567/15sugg.htm   (457 words)

CNN Cold War - Historical Document: Excerpts from HUAC hearings After declaring that Hollywood filmmakers "employed subtle techniques in pictures glorifying the Communist system," the House Un-American Activities Committee held public hearings in October 1947 to question 24 "friendly" and 11 "unfriendly" witnesses from the filmmaking industry. CNN Cold War - Historical Document: Excerpts from HUAC hearings www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/06/documents/huac   (135 words)

Statements by Hanns Eisler under interrogation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and on his deportation from the USA If the House Committee on Un-American Activities is interested in other facts of my life or in my professional activities, it need not investigate me. It can find them easily in music encyclopedias or in Who’s News and Why, 1942. On the contrary, this Committee has called me only in order to continue its smear of me in the press, hoping that it will thereby intimidate artists throughout the country to conform to the political ideas of this committee. I have never wanted to overthrow American music or the American government, and I was not in the remotest way ever a threat to the security of the United States. www.mediamusicstudies.net /tagg/others/eisler/statements.html   (6234 words)

House Committee on Un-American Activities - Henry Agard Wallace - The University of Iowa Libraries House Committee on Un-American Activities - Henry Agard Wallace - The University of Iowa Libraries Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted by their fragile condition or by contractual agreement with donors, and it may not be possible at all times to provide appropriate machinery for reading, viewing or accessing non-paper-based materials. www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/MSC/ToMsc200/MsC177/huac.htm   (150 words)

William F. Buckley Jr. on Cold War on National Review Online Perhaps it is romantic to assume that the House Committee on Un-American Activities can adhere to a position so very much different from that of the President of the United States, and the majority of the Congress. The chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities was again in New York City in pursuit of the Committee’s business, and again a rally of welcome was organized. Well yes, violent overthrow of the government is un-American, all right; but we have laws against that, so why do we need House Committees, and additional laws? www.nationalreview.com /flashback/1958200511170850.asp   (1341 words)

House Un-American Activities Committee Originally created in 1938 to inquire into subversive activities in the U.S., it was reestablished in 1945 as the Committee on Un-American Activities, renamed in 1969 as the Committee on Internal Security, and abolished in 1975. an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease. www.factmonster.com /ipd/A0480977.html   (70 words)

"Bring Back the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)" by Judson Cox We must urge our leaders to re-institute the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), and we should urge the attorney general to prosecute the crimes of treason and sedition. She was found guilty, but later pardoned when it was proved that she had been forced to partake in treasonous activities against her will, and that she sought to undermine the Japanese as best she could. Treasonous and seditious activities are illegal; they are not protected as free speech. www.chronwatch.com /content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=11290   (790 words)

HUAC The content of Hollywood films has always been regulated in one form or another-, however, between 1947 and 1954 the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) became indirectly involved in this kind of regulation. All ten were held in (contempt and subsequently served between six and twelve months in jail, although one, Edward Dmytryk, later agreed to cooperate with the committee and did not serve his entire sentence. The remaining nine were blacklisted by the Hollywood film community and found themselves forced to use pseudonyms in order to sell scripts. www.moderntimes.com /palace/huac.htm   (1466 words)

Einstein American Museum of Natural History The U.S. Congress, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, conducted witch-hunts in search of Communist sympathizers. , for example, and described capitalism as "economic anarchy." Such statements, combined with his advocacy of nuclear disarmament and civil rights, made Einstein a highly controversial figure in the 1950s, when the House Committee on Un-American Activities and Senator Joseph McCarthy were accusing many of being Communists. Einstein was never charged and never appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee. www.amnh.org /exhibitions/einstein/global/mccarthy.php   (530 words)

October 2005 Spotlight The investigation of Hollywood radicals by the House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 and 1951 was a continuation of pressures first exerted in the late 1930s and early 1940s by the Dies Committee and State Senator Jack Tenney's California Joint Fact-finding Committee on Un-American Activities. A documentary which looks at the personal tragedies and triumphs which resulted from the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings, 1947-1951, as seen through the eyes of the wives and children of the Hollywood writers, producers, and directors who were the victims of these hearings. Refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American activities, commie fever infected them at the dawn of the blacklisting cold war"—Container. www.lmu.edu /PageFactory.aspx?PageID=15743   (749 words)

American Experience The Presidents Richard M. Nixon PBS position on the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 was anything but a prime assignment. Staffed by right-wing zealots and conducted with the decorum of a kangaroo court, the committee had largely failed in its mission to flush out Communist subversives in America. When a committee of local Republicans drafted Nixon as a Congressional candidate in 1946, he got his first opportunity to take on the New Deal. www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/presidents/37_nixon/nixon_early.html   (1247 words)

HUAC House Un-American Activities Committee Red Scare Questia.com Online Library ...federal prison, the House Committee on Un-American Activities HUAC was grilling...important" for the House Committee on Un-American Activities to investigate communist...a... The Great "Red Menace": United States Prosecution of American Communists, 1947-1952 (Chap. American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War (Chap. www.questia.com /library/politics-and-government/huac.jsp   (615 words)

United States Congress House Committee on Un-American Activities, Eric Bentley Thirty Years of Treason (Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968) Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops United States Congress House Committee on Un-American Activities, Eric Bentley Thirty Years of Treason (Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968) United States Congress House Committee on Un-American Activities, Eric Bentley Thirty Years of Treason (Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968) Just separate the e-mail adresses with a comma.) www.schwartzbooks.com /cgi-bin/email.cgi?item=1560253681   (78 words)

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