HUAC

HUAC stands for House Commitee on Un-American Activities. One of their main goals was to destroy Communism in every way they could. They would try and ruin any careers of people who with accused of being Communists. In 1952 and 1952 they made a list of people who were supposed Communists. This was called the Blacklist, all 212 people on this list actually lost their job because of it. The people on this list were not able to find jobs for several years because their reputation had been ruined. None of them could regain any jobs until their reputation had been cleared in public.
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