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Aug 27, 2015 · Her name had appeared in Red Channels, a report that listed more than 100 entertainers who appeared to have communist leanings. For more than three years after that, she struggled to get work....
- John Meroney
Oct 20, 2017 · Lena Horne. Horne was a singer, dancer, and actress. She was blacklisted for many years and labeled as a Communist sympathizer because of her civil rights activism and connection to Paul Robeson, who was heavily targeted because of his communist affiliations.
Teddy Horne left the family when Lena was three years old and moved to an upper-middle-class African-American community in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [5][6] Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron, was an actress with a Black theatre troupe and traveled extensively. [7]
- Dalton Trumbo. Dalton Trumbo in 1957. The blacklist era kicked off in 1947, when famed screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and several other filmmakers known as the “Hollywood Ten” were called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and asked a now-famous question: “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”
- Pete Seeger. Pete Seeger in 1955. Pete Seeger is best known as a founding member of the folk outfit The Weavers, but he was also a political radical who claimed membership in the Communist Party as a young man.
- Orson Welles. Orson Welles in 1942. At the same time that director, writer and actor Orson Welles was making groundbreaking films and radio programs, he was also under FBI investigation as a potential Communist and political subversive.
- Lena Horne. Lena Horne in 1950. During the 1940s, Lena Horne’s good looks and silky singing voice made her one of the first African American stars of the stage and screen.
Jun 22, 2015 · Lena Horne: The singer, dancer and actress, pictured in 1948, was blacklisted from performing for many years, labeled a Communist sympathizer due to her civil rights activism and connection...
- Eliza Berman
May 14, 2020 · Her name had appeared in Red Channels, a report that listed more than 100 entertainers who appeared to have communist leanings. Now struggling to get work in the TV or film industries, Horne...
Jun 30, 2017 · These appearances came to an end when her sympathies to members or associates of the Communist Party was widely circulated, especially her ties to Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois.
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