HUAC Begins Investigating Suspected Communists
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Law, Legal History, Courts
- Subcategories: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Organizations, Agencies, Institutions, Communism, Communists, Fascism, Fascists, Discrimination, Prejudice
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
- Geographical Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: 1938
Article abstract: House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) searched for communists and fascists within the government and elsewhere for thirty-seven years before quietly expiring in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
Summary of Event
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) investigated Communist Party members, native fascists, and other proponents of so-called foreign “isms” in five different decades. For the first seven years of its life (1938-1945), HUAC served as a special committee chaired by Martin Dies. Established as a...
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