About Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
- Released on January 01, 1998
A documentary 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.
Full Cast of Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Morgan Freeman
plays Self
Rosetta LeNoire
plays Self
Frederick O'Neal
plays Self
Paul Robeson
plays Self (archive footage)
Joseph Wershba
plays Self
J. Edgar Hoover
plays Self (archive footage)
Jackie Robinson
plays Self (archive footage)
Hazel Scott
plays Self (archive footage)
Adam Clayton Powell III
plays Self - son of Hazel Scott
Sidney Poitier
plays Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
Canada Lee
plays Stephen Kumalo (archive footage)
Gertrude Jeannette
plays Self
Erik Barnouw
plays Self - broadcast historian
Gregory Abbott
plays Newsreel Narrator (voice) (archive sound)
Crew of Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
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