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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Some members of the Hollywood Ten at an airport. The bald man on the far left is Alvah Bessie. Near the center with his hand gesturing is Herbert Biberman.... |
| Date: | 10 28 1947 |
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| Description: | Several members of the screenwriters and directors known as the Hollywood Ten, together with members of their families at a demonstration before their impr... |
| Date: | 09 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Subpoena for Alvah Bessie to appear before the U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Un-American Activities on October 23, 1947. |
| Date: | 09 18 1947 |
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| Description: | A summons issued by the United States House of Representatives for Alvah Bessie to appear before the Un-American Activities Committee to testify. |
| Date: | 12 1984 |
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| Description: | Harry Haywood, seated at the left, one of the leading American communists, at the holiday party of the "Guardian" newspaper, the year before his death. Abe... |
| Date: | 01 08 1965 |
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| Description: | The investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee did not end in the 1950s. Here are (left to right) Donna Allen of the Women's Strike for P... |
| Date: | 10 23 1978 |
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| Description: | Jack A. Smith, managing editor of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper. Smith's admiration for Chinese communism is suggested by the decorations on h... |
| Date: | 10 23 1978 |
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| Description: | Staff of the "Guardian," the Marxist-Leninist weekly newspaper, taken on the 40th anniversary of the paper's establishment. The cake is decorated with a ha... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Cedric Belfrage, co-editor and founder of the "National Guardian," visiting a Moscow synagogue after his deportation from the United States. Belfrage was d... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Cedric Belfrage of the "National Guardian" visiting with China philosophers in Peking. Belfrage was the first western correspondent to visit mainland China... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Cedric Belfrage (center), exiled editor of the "National Guardian," at a party for Paul Robeson. The man on the left is Canon Stanley Evans. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Farewell party for Cedric Belfrage of the "National Guardian" at the newspaper's office. Identified in the crowd is Paul Robeson, a longtime supporter of t... |
| Date: | 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Cedric Belfrage (facing the camera and wearing a tie) talks to the staff of the "National Guardian" about his appearance before the McCarthy Committee at w... |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, laughing for the camera, displays a newspaper advertisement that proclaims: "McCarthyism is Treason to America." |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Alger Hiss. His perjury conviction on charges of spying for the Communists greatly enhanced the careers of Richard Nixon, an... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | After their parents' arrest, Robert (left) and Michael Rosenberg had no settled home. They were eventually placed with Abel and Anne Meeropol under the pro... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a graffiti painted wall that reads, "Pill" and "Only Revolution Ends War!" framed by hammer and sickles. |
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| Description: | A silk banner for the Communist League of America's New York Branch. The Communist League of America was founded in 1928 as a section of Leon Trotsky's Int... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Hong Kong police with jeep who followed journalist Cecil Brown as he traveled along the border with Communist China. |
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