U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/U.S._House_Un-American_Activities_Committee
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:parliamentary_committee
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:HUAC
gptkbp:controversy First Amendment issues
violations of civil liberties
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dissolved 1975
gptkbp:established 1938
gptkbp:focus investigation of alleged disloyalty and subversive activities
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee
gptkbp:jurisdiction gptkb:U.S._House_of_Representatives
gptkbp:notableAction public hearings
subpoena power
blacklisting individuals
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Alger_Hiss_case
gptkb:Hollywood_blacklist
Communist infiltration
gptkbp:notableMember gptkb:Richard_Nixon
gptkb:J._Parnell_Thomas
gptkb:Martin_Dies_Jr.
gptkbp:notableWitness gptkb:Arthur_Miller
gptkb:Bertolt_Brecht
gptkb:Charlie_Chaplin
gptkb:Dorothy_Parker
gptkb:Langston_Hughes
gptkb:Leonard_Bernstein
gptkb:Lucille_Ball
gptkb:Paul_Robeson
gptkb:Ronald_Reagan
gptkb:Walt_Disney
gptkb:Howard_Da_Silva
gptkb:Dalton_Trumbo
gptkb:Burgess_Meredith
gptkb:Edward_G._Robinson
gptkb:Orson_Welles
gptkb:Zero_Mostel
gptkb:Gale_Sondergaard
gptkb:Dashiell_Hammett
gptkb:Elia_Kazan
gptkb:Michael_Wilson
gptkb:Pete_Seeger
gptkb:Alvah_Bessie
gptkb:Lester_Cole
gptkb:Adrian_Scott
gptkb:Albert_Maltz
gptkb:Herbert_Biberman
gptkb:John_Howard_Lawson
gptkb:Samuel_Ornitz
gptkb:Anne_Revere
gptkb:John_Garfield
gptkb:Lillian_Hellman
gptkb:Edward_Dmytryk
gptkb:Ring_Lardner_Jr.
gptkb:Will_Geer
gptkb:Lionel_Stander
Robert Adrian Scott
gptkbp:parentOrganization gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Special_Committee_on_Un-American_Activities
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:McCarthyism
gptkb:Red_Scare
gptkbp:successor House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
gptkbp:type gptkb:parliamentary_committee
investigative committee
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Pumpkin_Papers
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7