12 Postwar Boom and anti-communism
Primary Source Text: Joseph McCarthy, “Enemies from within” speeches: https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6456
Primary Source Text: Famous singer and actor Paul Robeson’s interview with HUAC: https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6440
Primary Source Video: “A Word to the Wives” — useful advertising piece from 1955 illustrating postwar consumerism and gender roles: https://archive.org/details/Wordtoth1955
Primary Source Video: “Father Knows Best” season season 1, episode 25, “no partiality.” Illustrates gender roles, anti-communism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwC7GPLv58Q
Primary Source Hollywood Movie (sort of Hollywood): Salt of the Earth, 1954 film made by blacklisted Hollywood writer, director, and producer, showing real strike in New Mexico, acted largely by strikers themselves: https://www.kanopy.com/en/cod/video/1317719
Hollywood Movie: Malcolm X film by Spike Lee, 1989 (stretches from 1940s-1965): https://www.amazon.com/Malcolm-X-Denzel-Washington/dp/B000QFQE4U