Hollywood blacklist

The Hollywood Ten is the term for ten screenwriters, actors and directors from Hollywood, who had refused to testify before the committee of the House of Representatives of the United States of America to investigate " un-American activities" through memberships in the Communist Party, and the beginning of 1948 to prison terms were convicted.

The establishment of the first Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) House of Representatives in 1934 was operated by Samuel Dickstein for defense of Nazi infiltration, but other committees examined soon Communists, Trotskyists, and Japanese. After the Second World War, at the beginning of the Cold War, the HUAC combating communist members of the film industry devoted. According to statements by anti-Communists such as Walt Disney and the President of the Screen Actors ' Union, the USA later president, Ronald Reagan, presented the committee put together a "black list" of about 100 people who suspect it of being communists and of which there summoning some.

From this group, among others, the ten soon known as the Hollywood Ten people refused, citing the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that statement. They were sentenced to 6 to 12 months in prison for contempt of Congress. After serving their prison sentences, some of them were no longer work in their professions.

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