House Committee for Un-American Activities
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Christina Stead | From her first discovery until this point in her career, CS
was held in high esteem by the literary worlds of London (always excepting her damning reviews in the Times Literary Supplement) and New... |
| politics | Christina Stead | Their Communism made Blech and Stead vulnerable in the immediate postwar years. The House Committee for Un-American Activities
issued its first subpoenas to creative people in films and allied occupations in September 1947, after gathering... |
Timeline
20 November 1934
Lillian Hellman
's The Children's Hour, a play in which schoolgirls accuse teachers of having a lesbian relationship, opened on Broadway, New York.
September 1947
The USHouse Committee for Un-American Activities
(HUAC) began issuing subpoenas to leading figures in the entertainment industry, three years before the communist witch-hunting of Senator Joseph McCarthy
made him a household name.
22 January 1953
The Crucible, a play about the witch trials at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, by dramatist Arthur Miller
, opened on stage in New York.