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Aaron Leonard - The Folk Singers and the FBI
Manage episode 340318456 series 3315994
Woody Guthrie, Pete Seager and Sis Cunningham, among many others, were the targets of the House of Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) from just before WWII to just after. Aaron Leonard discusses this history and the redbaiting aftereffects still alive and well nearly a century later.
Order Aaron Leonard's book: The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The Fbi, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, Usa 1939-1956
Support Dissident Orthodoxy on Patreon
75 episodes
Manage episode 340318456 series 3315994
Woody Guthrie, Pete Seager and Sis Cunningham, among many others, were the targets of the House of Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) from just before WWII to just after. Aaron Leonard discusses this history and the redbaiting aftereffects still alive and well nearly a century later.
Order Aaron Leonard's book: The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The Fbi, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, Usa 1939-1956
Support Dissident Orthodoxy on Patreon
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