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House Un-American Activities Committee
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House Un-American Activities Committee
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(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the former name of the Internal Security Committee of the US House of Representatives: notorious for its anti-Communist investigations in the late 1940s and 1950s.
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BACKGROUND The House Committee on Un-American Activities grew out of other temporary committees created to investigate Nazi propaganda and Communist influence in the U.
Blacklisted! "Are you now or have you ever been a Communist?" That ... by Hanson-Harding, Alexandra / Junior Scholastic
In 1949, former Communist Manning Johnson (who had been in the party from 1930 to 1940, but then became an ardent anti-Communist) was called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which was conducting a series of hearings entitled "Communist Infiltration of Minority Groups.
A mockery of Black Heritage by Mass, Warren / The New American
 
 
 
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