House Un-American Activities Committee

[edit] The Mahalo Top 7

1. Wikipedia: McCormick-Dickstein Committee | House Un-American Activities Committee
2. Video: Committee On Un-American Activities (Time 43:51)
3. CNN.com: Cold War: Excerpts from HUAC Hearings  
4. The National Archives: "Prelude to McCarthyism: The Making of a Blacklist"(2006)
5. Authentic History Center: John Howard Lawson, Screenwriter, Testifies Before HUAC
6. Rotten.com: Unamerican Activities
7. Objectivism Reference Center: Ayn Rand's HUAC Testimony

[edit] House Un-American Activities Committee Background and Causes

[edit] Ku Klux Klan, Nazis and Japanese-Americans

• Wikipedia: German American Bund
• Anti-Fascist Archives: RFA 10-13 Aryan Nations
• Densho: Wartime Hysteria

[edit] Communists

• Wikipedia: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
• Wikipedia: Executive Order 9835 
• SovietHistory.org: Khrushchev's Secret Speech
• CNNcom: Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover before HUAC (excerpts)

[edit] House Un-American Activities Committee Central Figures

[edit] Hollywood Blacklist

• Wikipedia: The Hollywood Blacklist
• Classic Movies: The Hollywood Blacklist
• Hollywood Renegades Archive: 50 Years: SAG Remembers The Blacklist
• Eisler Music: Testimnony Before the First HUAC Hearing

[edit] Alger Hiss

• University Missouri-Kansas City: The Alger Hiss Trials
• CourtTV Crime Library: The Promising Mr Hiss
• Wikipedia: Alger Hiss
• New York University: The Alger Hiss Story
• PBS: Alger Hiss

[edit] Richard Nixon

• Wikipedia: Richard Nixon
• The White House: Richard M Nixon
• University Missouri-Kansas City: The Nixon Tapes and the Alger Hiss Case
• American Heritage: Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon

[edit] House Un-American Activities Committee Images and Media

• William Mandel's Official Site: Audio of Speech to HUAC
• YouTube: The HUAC Hearings (Time 0:55)
• YouTube: Katharine Hepburn's speech 1947 against HUAC (Time 10:06)
• YouTube: Hollywood 'Red' Probe Begins, 1947/10/20 (1947) (Time 1:51)

[edit] House Un-American Activities Committee Books and Research

• The Guardian: "After The Purge"(2005)
• Subversive Influences: House Un-American Activities Committee
• Pearson Education: Reagan and Maltz Testimonies Before HUAC
• UMKC School of Law: Testimony of Whittaker Chambers before the HUAC
• Questia: HUAC Books | Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy 

[edit] Academic Writing

• Research Paper: "How the Film and Television Blacklists Worked"
• Scholarly Report: "HUAC: May 1960 - The Events; The Aftermath"
• Scholarly Report: "Congressional Committees and Unfriendly Witnesses"

[edit] House Un-American Activities Committee Blogs and Message Boards

• The History Blogger: The Roots of the HUAC Committee
• American Socal History: My Review of The House Committee on Un-American Activities
• Telleris' Blog: HUAC and the Motion Picture Industry

[edit] House Un-American Activities Committee Timeline

• 1934: McCormack-Dickstein Committee (Also called "Special Committee on Un-American Activities Authorized to Investigate Nazi Propaganda and Certain Other Propaganda Activities") is formed to investigate a plot to seize the White House.
• 1938: A special committee called Dies Committee is formed to investigate Nazi and KKK activity. From this committee, the HUAC is born.
• 1938: The head of the Federal Theatre Project testifies before the HUAC to answer charges of communism in the project.
• 1946: The HUAC became a standing committee.
• 1947: HUAC held hearings investigating communism in the motion picture industry, resulting in the blacklisting of the "Hollywood Ten".
• 1948: HUAC investigated Alger Hiss, leading to his trial and conviction for perjury.
• 1969: Name changed from [1]HUAC to Committee on Internal Security.
• 1975: Committee abolished, duties transferred to the House Judiciary Committee.

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