Index: HUAC

Feb 1,

1902

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

Oct 3,

1930

Fish Committee Begins Hearings on Communism in Washington State

May 26,

1934

McCormack-Dickstein Committee Hearings Begin; Forerunner of HUAC

Feb 20,

1937

National Lawyers Guild, Alternative to ABA, is Organized

May 26,

1938

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Established – 37 Years of Civil Liberties Violations Follow

Aug 11,

1938

“Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?” First HUAC Hearings Begin – 37-Years of Inquisitions Follow

Jan 3,

1939

HUAC: ACLU A Communist “Front Organization”

Feb 25,

1940

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

Oct 5,

1944

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

Jan 3,

1945

HUAC Made a Permanent Committee – Assault on Freedom of Belief and Association Continues

Apr 16,

1945

Los Angeles First Unitarian Church Labeled a “Communist Meeting Place”

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 27,

1947

“Hollywood Ten” HUAC Hearings Begin – Angry Confrontation Erupts

Oct 28,

1947

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo Defies HUAC, Is Blacklisted

Oct 30,

1947

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

Oct 30,

1947

Writer of MAS*H Refuses to Tell HUAC About His Beliefs and Associations – Is Blacklisted

Dec 3,

1947

Hollywood Blacklist Begins

Jan 9,

1948

Hollywood Ten Arraigned for Contempt of Congress

Apr 25,

1951

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

May 14,

1951

HUAC Publishes “Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications”

Sep 12,

1951

LA Unitarian Minister Accused of “Aid and Comfort to the Communist Cause”

Sep 19,

1951

All-Time “Namer of Names,” Martin Berkeley, Names 150+ to HUAC

Feb 6,

1952

Members of Weavers, Folksinging Group, Named as Communists Before HUAC

Apr 6,

1952

ACLU Report Blasts Cold War Blacklisting

Apr 10,

1952

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

May 1,

1952

Actor Edward G. Robinson Confesses to HUAC — “I Was a Sucker”

May 21,

1952

Playwright Lillian Hellman Famously Rebukes HUAC

Aug 29,

1952

Frank Wilkinson Declines to Answer Questions About Political Associations, Is Fired, Begins Civil Liberties Career

Oct 28,

1952

Attorney General: Charlie Chaplin Must “Prove His Worth” to Return to U.S.

Jan 22,

1953

“The Crucible” Opens in New York; Playwright Arthur Miller’s Cold War Statement

Aug 27,

1953

A.G. Brownell Calls Lawyers Guild “Legal Mouthpiece” of the Communist Party

Sep 4,

1953

HUAC Loves Lucy

Jul 28,

1954

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

Aug 18,

1955

Pete Seeger Asserts First Amendment Right at HUAC Hearing

Jun 12,

1956

“You Are the Un-Americans:” Paul Robeson Denounces HUAC

Jun 21,

1956

Playwright Arthur Miller Testifies Before HUAC – Refuses to Name Names

Nov 25,

1956

Oscar-Nominated Film . . . Has No Screenwriter!

Dec 7,

1956

ACLU Attorney A.L. Wirin Ejected From HUAC Hearing

Jan 17,

1957

Defund HUAC Urges ACLU of Northern California

May 31,

1957

Famed Playwright Arthur Miller Convicted of Contempt of Congress

Jun 17,

1957

“Red Monday” – Supreme Court Limits Anti-Communist Measures

Jun 18,

1957

HUAC Chair to Supreme Court: “Bone Up on Communism”

Jan 17,

1958

61 Chicago-area Notables Call for Abolition of HUAC

Jun 19,

1958

Joe Papp, Future Theater Great, Takes the Fifth Before HUAC – Is Fired by CBS

Jul 30,

1958

Frank Wilkinson, Anti-HUAC Activist, Refuses to Answer HUAC Questions

Aug 7,

1958

Playwright Arthur Miller’s HUAC Contempt Conviction Overturned

Nov 12,

1958

Joseph Papp, Fired and Blacklisted, Ordered Reinstated in Job at CBS

Apr 4,

1960

Anti-HUAC Demonstrations Planned

Apr 25,

1960

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

May 12,

1960

Major Anti-HUAC Protest Begins in San Francisco; Police Brutality the Next Day

May 1,

1961

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

Dec 1,

1961

Northern California ACLU Releases “Operation Correction” Film Rebutting Distorted HUAC Film

Aug 16,

1966

Disorder Erupts as HUAC Investigates Anti-Vietnam War Movement

Jan 7,

1969

Governor Reagan: Drive “Anarchists” and “Latter Day Fascists” Off California Campuses

Jun 4,

1974

“The List” is Ended: President Nixon Abolishes the Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations

Jan 14,

1975

HUAC Abolished; 37 Years of Civil Liberties Violations Finally Ends

May 2,

1975

Eighteen Years Late, Blacklisted Dalton Trumbo Receives His Oscar

May 24,

1976

“Hollywood on Trial” Shown at Cannes Film Festival

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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