HTS 3025 Study Guide - Final Guide: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Septima Poinsette Clark
28 Jan 2017
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House un-american activities committee was an advocate on the red scare and committee that investigated communist ties. Due to their rulings, artists were blacklisted in hollywood such as paul robeson. Paul robeson was an african-american popular singer and actor in the 1940s. He was politically outspoken about progressive causes and labor & civil rights. When called before the huac at a hearing, he refused to admit to not being a communist and due to mccarthyism his fame and accomplishments were erased from history. ( civil rights since 1787, 412-415) The congress of racial equality(previously named committee of racial equality) was formed in the 1940s to use the tactic of nonviolent direct action it inherited from for. Core had very few victories using tactics such as sit-ins of degregating businesses early on until the journey of reconciliation on april 1947. the journey of.
