Scandalize My Name Stories from the Blacklist (1998)

A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare McCarthyism and blacklists with the postwar 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 ONeal of the American Negro Theatre In the 1940s and 1950s antiCommunism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down AfricanAmericans