HUAC

The House of Un-American Activities Committee was an investigative committee in the United State House of Representatives which was made to look for disloyalty in the United States government.  Largely associated with McCarthyism, HUAC set out to investigate and convict people of communism views. In 1947, HUAC began blacklisting Hollywood actors and producers, including Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and Charlie Chaplin.

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