12 Postwar Boom and anti-communism
- Primary Source Text: Joseph McCarthy, “Enemies from within” speeches.
- Primary Source Text: Famous singer and actor Paul Robeson’s interview with HUAC.
- Primary Source Video: “A Word to the Wives” — useful advertising piece from 1955 illustrating postwar consumerism and gender roles.
- Primary Source Video: “Father Knows Best” season 1, episode 25, “no partiality.” Illustrates gender roles, anti-communism.
- 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.
- Hollywood Movie: Malcolm X film by Spike Lee, 1989 (stretches from 1940s-1965).
