Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998)

8.3 54 min Movie
DocumentaryHistory

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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Cast

Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman Self
Rosetta LeNoire Rosetta LeNoire Self
Dick Campbell Dick Campbell Self
Frederick O'Neal Frederick O'Neal Self
Ossie Davis Ossie Davis Self
Paul Robeson Paul Robeson Self (archive footage)
Joseph Wershba Joseph Wershba Self
J. Edgar Hoover J. Edgar Hoover Self (archive footage)
Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson Self (archive footage)
Hazel Scott Hazel Scott Self (archive footage)
Adam Clayton Powell III Adam Clayton Powell III Self - son of Hazel Scott
Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)

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