On this day, May 13, 1960, 68 people, mostly college students, were arrested in the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee. The investigative committee, ...
For one week in October 1947, the town was enthralled not with a movie opening or a celebrity scandal but with an unfolding drama in Washington, D.C. The hearings of the House Un-American Activities ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Day after day a plainly dressed witness, an Imperial Dragon, or Grand Nighthawk, a Kludd, or some other officer of the Ku Klux Klan sits quietly on the witness stand, across the ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. File consists of note from Toshi Seeger to Kate Rinzler, undated annotated copies of pages 4-68 of court proceedings, undated excerpts of pages 4a ...
The House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, came to Milwaukee in March 1955 to investigate Communist influence in the city. The four-member subcommittee called 16 witnesses, two of whom were ...