Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Morgan Freeman	...	Himself (Host)
	Rosetta LeNoire	...	Herself
	Dick Campbell	...	Himself
	Frederick O'Neal	...	Himself
	Ossie Davis	...	Himself
	Harry Belafonte	...	Himself
	Paul Robeson	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Joseph Wershba	...	Himself (broadcast journalist)
	J. Edgar Hoover	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Jackie Robinson	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Gregory Abbott	...	Newsreel Narrator (voice) (archive sound)
	Erik Barnouw	...	Himself (broadcast historian)
	Hazel Scott	...	Herself (archive footage)
	Adam Clayton Powell III	...	Himself (son of Hazel Scott)
	Fred Waring	...	Himself (archive footage)

Storyline

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. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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