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Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

1998 · 54m · Documentary, History

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.

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Cast

• Morgan Freeman as Self
• Rosetta LeNoire as Self
• Dick Campbell as Self
• Frederick O'Neal as Self
• Ossie Davis as Self
• Paul Robeson as Self (archive footage)
• Joseph Wershba as Self
• J. Edgar Hoover as Self (archive footage)
• Jackie Robinson as Self (archive footage)
• Hazel Scott as Self (archive footage)
• Adam Clayton Powell III as Self - son of Hazel Scott
• Sidney Poitier as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)

Details

Director

Alexandra Isles

Released

January 1, 1998

Runtime

54m

Genres

Documentary, History

Status

Released

TMDB score

8.2 / 10 from 4 votes