Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.

Cast

Morgan Freeman Self Rosetta LeNoire Self

Dick Campbell Self

Frederick O'Neal Self Ossie Davis Self Paul Robeson Self (archive footage)

Joseph Wershba Self

J. Edgar Hoover Self (archive footage) Jackie Robinson Self (archive footage) Hazel Scott Self (archive footage)

Adam Clayton Powell III Self - son of Hazel Scott

Sidney Poitier Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)

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