From HUAC to McCarthyism

• In the fall of 1947, HUAC held highly publicized hearings of the communist influence in Hollywood
• "The Hollywood Ten" : published (despite the First Amendment) for refusing to provide information about their political convictions and those of their colleagues.
• The Hollywood Ten's consequence is that it created a blacklist in which hundreds of film artists were barred from industry work.
• In different states, hundreds of committee proliferated in schools and universities. In 1950, thirty-one professors in California were dismissed for refusing to sign a loyalty oath
• In 1950s, The Nation magazine wrote “McCarthyism is the means by which men, disguised as hunters of subversion, subvert the instruments of justice […] in order to help their own political fortunes.”
• In 1950s, McCarty stated he had a list of 205 known communists within the State Departement influencing the US policy on China. He only ever gave one name, Owen Lattimore who was latter cleared