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Release Date:
January 1, 1998
Original Title:
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Alternate Titles:
Scandalize My Name
Stories From The Blacklist
Genres:
Documentary | History
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 54
A 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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Animation:
Marcos Levy
Associate Producer:
Dovie Powell Banks
Cassandra Barbour
Camera Operator:
Paul Koestner
Denis Maloney
Clearances Coordinator:
Cassandra Barbour
Laura Sevier
Consulting Producer:
William Miles
Director:
Alexandra Isles
Editor:
Doug Rossini
Gaffer:
Kelvin Green
Graphic Designer:
Jay Dopwell
In Memory Of:
Frederick O'Neal
Post Production Supervisor:
Marcos Levy
Producer:
Alexandra Isles
Sound Director:
Bill Wander
Sound Editor:
Rick Bradley
Still Photographer:
Daniel Liss
Susan Walsh
Thanks:
Betty Barnouw
Erik Barnouw
Harry Belafonte
Donald Bogie
Dick Campbell
Ossie Davis
Robert L. Freedman
Morgan Freeman
Fred W. Friendly
John Froats
Shaun Gunson
Peter Harron
Adam Isles
Alfred Jaretzki III
Gertrude Jeannette
Robert L. Johnson
Rosetta LeNoire
Patilu Llosa
Frances Lee Pearson
Templeton Peck
Ben Phelan
Adam Clayton Powell III
Tamara E. Robinson
Demetria Royals
Lisa Schiff
Carol Shapiro
Elisa Shokoff
Priscilla Taggart
Jessica Weglein
Joseph Wershba
Writer:
Alexandra Isles
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