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House Un-American Activities Committee
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House Un-American Activities Committee

Congressional committee, established in 1938 as the Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities under the chairmanship of Martin Dies. Noted for its public investigation of alleged subversion, particularly of communists, it was renamed the House Internal Security Committee in 1969. It achieved its greatest notoriety during the 1950s through its hearings on communism in the movie industry. It was abolished in 1975.



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Kazan and Schulberg had both been summoned to testify before the HUAC and were tainted by suspicions of communism as well as scorned for cooperating.
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Elia Kazan, the brilliant director of Miller's first two plays, had been justified in turning informer and naming names to HUAC, though he knew it could ruin lives and careers (but not his own).
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In an atmosphere of growing paranoia and suspicion, the HUAC hearings went on.
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