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Voices in the Wire

99% Invisible

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The Great Singers of the McCarthy Era

In the McCarthy era Robeson couldn't travel because they called him a communist which is ridiculous. I would record speeches that he wanted to give in South Africa. Then when the Hollywood 10 were supposed to go to jail for being un-American and many of them had made movies that I loved, I recorded all of them the night before they went to jail. How did they treat you in front of this committee? The committee was anti-Semitic, anti-labor, anti-Negro, pro-war and had been denounced by everyone from Roosevelt down over the world.

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