Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.

Cast

Morgan Freeman

Self

Rosetta LeNoire

Self

Dick Campbell

Self

Frederick O'Neal

Self

Ossie Davis

Self

Paul Robeson

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Wershba

Self

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (archive footage)

Jackie Robinson

Self (archive footage)

Hazel Scott

Self (archive footage)

Adam Clayton Powell III

Self - son of Hazel Scott

Sidney Poitier

Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)

Canada Lee

Stephen Kumalo (archive footage)

Gertrude Jeannette

Self

Erik Barnouw

Self - broadcast historian

Gregory Abbott

Newsreel Narrator (voice) (archive sound)

Harry Belafonte

Self

Crew

Alexandra Isles

Director, Writer, Producer

Doug Rossini

Editor

Dovie Powell Banks

Associate Producer

Cassandra Barbour

Associate Producer, Clearances Coordinator

Denis Maloney

Camera Operator

Paul Koestner

Camera Operator

Marcos Levy

Post Production Supervisor, Animation

Bill Wander

Sound Director

Rick Bradley

Sound Editor

Daniel Liss

Still Photographer

Susan Walsh

Still Photographer

William Miles

Consulting Producer

Laura Sevier

Clearances Coordinator

Frederick O'Neal

In Memory Of

Kelvin Green

Gaffer

Jay Dopwell

Graphic Designer

Betty Barnouw

Thanks

Erik Barnouw

Thanks

Harry Belafonte

Thanks

Donald Bogie

Thanks

Dick Campbell

Thanks

Ossie Davis

Thanks

Robert L. Freedman

Thanks

Morgan Freeman

Thanks

Fred W. Friendly

Thanks

John Froats

Thanks

Shaun Gunson

Thanks

Peter Harron

Thanks

Adam Isles

Thanks

Alfred Jaretzki III

Thanks

Gertrude Jeannette

Thanks

Robert L. Johnson

Thanks

Rosetta LeNoire

Thanks

Patilu Llosa

Thanks

Frances Lee Pearson

Thanks

Templeton Peck

Thanks

Ben Phelan

Thanks

Adam Clayton Powell III

Thanks

Tamara E. Robinson

Thanks

Demetria Royals

Thanks

Lisa Schiff

Thanks

Carol Shapiro

Thanks

Elisa Shokoff

Thanks

Priscilla Taggart

Thanks

Jessica Weglein

Thanks

Joseph Wershba

Thanks

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