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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Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist was released in 1998 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 3 reviews, giving Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998) an average rating of 78%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 93%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 78%, Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1998, which stands at 59%.
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