Joseph McCarthy

Joseph McCarthy

male, deceased (1957)
anti-communist, Anti-communism, U.S. Senator, United States Marine Corps officer, American military personnel of World War II, Republican…republican party, American, americancommunistparty, communist, communist party usa
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the...
Dorothy Healey

Dorothy Healey

female, deceased (2006)
communist, Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, On the Personality Cult and its Consequences, New American Movement, California State University, Long Beach, Democratic Socialist of America…American, americancommunistparty
Dorothy Ray Healey (September 22, 1914-August 6, 2006) was a long-time activist in the American Communist Party, from the late 1920s to the 1970s....
Theodore Draper

Theodore Draper

male, deceased (2006)
Commentary Magazine, anti-communist, Anti-communism, Cold War, A Very Thin Line, americancommunistparty…American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American, American Communism and Soviet Russia, The Roots of American Communism, Communist Party, USA
Theodore H. Draper was an American historian and political writer. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the...
John Howard Lawson

John Howard Lawson

male, deceased (1977)
Williams College, American Field Service, Broadway theatre, Spanish Civil War, The International, Writers' Guild of America…Jewish American, americancommunistparty, American
John Howard Lawson (September 25, 1894 - August 11, 1977) was an American writer, and head of the Hollywood division of the American Communist...
Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin

male, deceased (1987)
African American, quaker, earlier, nonviolent resistance, African Americans' rights activist, nonviolence…American, LGBT African American, American Civil Rights Movement, americancommunistparty, joined the American Communist Party
Bayard Rustin was an African-American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and...
Edward Dmytryk

Edward Dmytryk

male, deceased (1999)
ukrainian, Hollywood ten, left-wing, Canadian American, naturalized citizen of the United States, Farewell My Lovely…communist, americancommunistparty, American
Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 - July 1, 1999) was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film...

Albert Weisbord

male, deceased (1977)
World War II, Trotskyist, communist, communist party usa, americancommunistparty, American…Communist League of Struggle
Albert Weisbord (1900 - 1977) was an early member of the American Communist Party. In the 1930s, Weisbord was the leader of an independent Marxist...

Adrian Scott

male, deceased (1973)
from New Jersey, McCarthyism, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Academy Award for Best Picture, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Hollywood ten…communist, communist party usa, americancommunistparty, American
Robert Adrian Scott (February 6, 1912 - December 25, 1973) was an American screenwriter and film producer known as one of the Hollywood Ten who was...

Lester Cole

male, deceased (1985)
Hollywood blacklist, Hollywood ten, contempt of Congress, Writers' Guild of America, House Committee on Un-American Activities, blacklist…American, americancommunistparty
Lester Cole (June 19, 1904 - August 15, 1985) was an American screenwriter. Born in New York City, Lester Cole began his career as an actor but...
Robert Minor

Robert Minor

male
cartoonist, communist, communist party usa, americancommunistparty, comintern, American
Robert Minor (1884 - 1952) was cartoonist and a leading member of the American Communist Party.