American Decades
House Un-American Activities Committee
House Un-American Activities Committee.
The House of Representatives began its work investigating subversive activity by U.S. citizens in 1930 as the Fish Committee and in 1934 as the McCormack Committee. In 1938 the committee was revived as the Dies Committee (after the name of its chairman, Martin Dies, Jr., D-Texas) to investigate the activities of communist and fascist organizations on the home front. Despite the strong anticommunism of Chairman Dies, before and during World War II the committee concentrated on fascist organizations.
The Permanent Committee.
In January 1945 the special committee was transformed into a permanent standing committee of the House. In Public Law 601, the seventy-ninth Congress authorized HUAC to investigate the following:
(1) the extent, character and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, (2) the diffusion within the United States of...
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1940's Law and Justice
