Topic: "The Second Red Scare"

Jan 21,

1884

Roger Baldwin, Founder of the ACLU, is Born

Feb 1,

1902

Langston Hughes, Noted African-American Poet, Social Critic, is Born

Jan 22,

1919

Senate Investigation Attacks Liberals, Pacifists, Radicals

Apr 20,

1932

Reed Harris Reinstated by Columbia University, But He Resigns

Feb 25,

1940

Prominent Liberals Ask HUAC to Change Procedures, and to Investigate Right-Wing Group

Jan 27,

1941

California Creates Un-American Activities Committee

Jul 28,

1941

California Un-American Activities Hearings Begin

Oct 5,

1944

Poet Langston Hughes Tops HUAC Anti-Communist List with 49 “Affiliations”

Apr 27,

1946

Civil Rights Congress Formed

Mar 12,

1947

Cold War Begins: Truman Doctrine Announced

Mar 21,

1947

Guilt by Association: President Truman Launches Federal Loyalty Program

Apr 10,

1947

Reagan “Names Names” to the FBI

Oct 20,

1947

HUAC Opens Hearings on Communists in Hollywood

Oct 23,

1947

Ronald Reagan Testifies Before HUAC as “Friendly” Witness

Oct 24,

1947

Committee for the First Amendment Opposes HUAC Investigation of Hollywood

Oct 30,

1947

Famed Playwright Brecht Testifies Before HUAC – Immediately Leaves the U.S.

Dec 4,

1947

Official Blacklist: Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations Published

Jan 21,

1950

“Fear Obscures Reason,” Justice Hugo Black Warns of Cold War Hysteria

Feb 9,

1950

“McCarthyism” is Born

Feb 20,

1950

Senator Joe McCarthy Claims List of 81 Communists in Government

Feb 28,

1950

Gov. Earl Warren Opposes University of California Loyalty Oath

Mar 8,

1950

Senator Joe McCarthy Names First Alleged “Communist” – She Wasn’t One

Dec 16,

1950

Truman Declares National Emergency to Combat “Communist Imperialism”

Apr 25,

1951

Hollywood Director Edward Dmytryk “Rehabilitates” Himself: Gives HUAC 26 Names

May 14,

1951

HUAC Publishes “Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications”

Jun 14,

1951

Joe McCarthy Attacks American War Hero, Gen. George C. Marshall

Jul 9,

1951

Author Dashiell Hammett Refuses to Provide Names of Contributors to Left-Wing Bail Fund

Oct 8,

1951

Emergency Civil Liberties Committee Formed

Mar 25,

1952

Homophobic Scare: State Department Removes 126 “Perverts”

Apr 6,

1952

ACLU Report Blasts Cold War Blacklisting

Apr 10,

1952

Naming Names: Famed Director Elia Kazan Names 8 People Before HUAC

May 21,

1952

Playwright Lillian Hellman Famously Rebukes HUAC

Jul 30,

1952

Classic Film “High Noon” Released – Co-Producer/Writer’s Name Deleted (Carl Foreman)

Apr 27,

1953

President Eisenhower Expands Loyalty Program to Cover Homosexuality

Jun 19,

1953

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Executed – Case Filled With Civil Liberties Problems

Jul 9,

1953

Joe McCarthy Aide Attacks “Reds in Our Churches”

May 27,

1954

AEC Denies Noted Scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer Appeal Over Security Clearance

Jun 9,

1954

“Have You No Decency?” Joseph N. Welch Rebukes Senator Joe McCarthy

Jul 28,

1954

Film “On the Waterfront” Premieres – Cold War Debate Energized

Sep 30,

1954

Rationale for Secrecy and Lawlessness: The Cold War is “A Different Kind of War”

Dec 13,

1954

Civil Rights Activist Carl Braden Convicted of Sedition

Mar 27,

1957

And the Oscar Goes to . . . A Blacklisted Screenwriter – Dalton Trumbo

Dec 9,

1958

John Birch Society, Hard-Line Anti-Communist Group, Founded

Apr 25,

1960

“Dragonslayers” Speech: Rep. Jimmy Roosevelt Calls for Abolition of HUAC

Oct 10,

1960

Committee to Abolish HUAC Holds First National Convention

May 1,

1961

Frank Wilkinson, Anti-HUAC Activist, Sent to Prison for Contempt of Congress

Feb 12,

1972

Dorothy Kenyon, Feminist and Civil Libertarian, Dies

Apr 2,

1972

Charlie Chaplin, Excluded in 1952, Returns to U.S. After 20 Years

Apr 10,

1972

Charlie Chaplin Receives Honorary Oscar, 20 Years After Being Excluded From U.S.

Apr 5,

1992

March for Women’s Lives in Washington

Mar 21,

1999

Elia Kazan Given Honorary Oscar – Award Protested Because He “Named Names” to HUAC

Jan 2,

2006

Frank Wilkinson, Anti-HUAC Activist, Dies

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