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- Often confused with the Senate committee chaired by Sen. Joseph McCarthy
- Contributed to blacklisting over 300 artists from the motion picture industry
- Investigation of Alger Hiss, an accused Communist spy in the U.S. State Department, was inconclusive
- Considered to have reached a nadir in the 1960s, during sessions with Jerry Rubin and Abbie HoffmanBook Rags: St. James Encyclopedia: Yippies
- In 1975, the Committee's functions were transferred to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
- Committee was denounced by Harry S. Truman in 1959
- Notable members: Richard Nixon, John W. McCormack and Karl Earl Mundt
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The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was formed by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1934 to investigate domestic radicals including Nazis, Communists and members of the Ku Klux Klan. The committee eventually focused almost exclusively on identifying Communists and, beginning in the late 1930s, HUAC launched a number of controversial investigations into alleged Communist infiltration of various cultural and governmental entities.
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House Un-American Activities Committee Questions
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HUAC Timeline
- 1934: McCormack-Dickstein Committee (also called "Special Committee on Un-American Activities Authorized to Investigate Nazi Propaganda and Certain Other Propaganda Activities") is formed to investigate a plot to seize the White House.
- 1938: A special committee called the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, or the Dies Committee, is formed to investigate Nazi and KKK activity. From this committee, the HUAC is born.
- 1937: The head of the Federal Theatre Project testifies before the HUAC to answer charges of communism in the project.
- 1946: The HUAC became a standing committee.
- 1947: HUAC held hearings investigating Communism in the motion picture industry, resulting in the blacklisting of the "Hollywood Ten."
- 1948: HUAC investigated Alger Hiss, leading to his trial and conviction for perjury.
- 1969: Name changed from HUAC to Committee on Internal Security.
- 1975: Committee abolished, duties transferred to the House Judiciary Committee.
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