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Anticommunist tract from the 1950s. It encourages people to drive the "Reds" (Communists) out of Hollywood and
Broadway
The
Hollywood blacklist
was a system of denying
employment
to
Hollywood
actors
,
producers
,
screenwriters
,
directors
, and other people in entertainment who were suspected of undesirable
political
connections or other undesirable associations.
Communist
sympathies and
homosexual
tendencies were two of the connections considered most undesirable. It mostly occurred through the middle of the 20th century, in the 1940s and 1950s.
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