Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
(1998)

Released: 1998-01-01

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A documentary 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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Paul Robeson

as Self (archive footage)

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J. Edgar Hoover

as Self (archive footage)

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Jackie Robinson

as Self (archive footage)

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Hazel Scott

as Self (archive footage)

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Adam Clayton Powell III

as Self - son of Hazel Scott

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Sidney Poitier

as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)

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Canada Lee

as Stephen Kumalo (archive footage)

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Erik Barnouw

as Self - broadcast historian

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Gregory Abbott

as Newsreel Narrator (voice) (archive sound)

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Bill Wander

Sound Director

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Rick Bradley

Sound Editor

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William Miles

Consulting Producer

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Denis Maloney

Camera Operator

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Daniel Liss

Still Photographer

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Paul Koestner

Camera Operator

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Marcos Levy

Post Production Supervisor

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Susan Walsh

Still Photographer

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