Red Scare and McCarthyism
Option 2: Red Scare and McCarthyism
In this scenario, you are a set designer for a Hollywood movie production company in 1952. You decide to write a letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times against Senator Joseph’s McCarthy’s anti-communist pursuit of the entertainment industry in Hollywood.
Review the required reading on the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word letter to the editor.
Include many of the following terms in your essay:
· Hollywood Blacklist
· Ronald Reagan’s HUAC testimony (1947)
· House Un-American Activities Committee
· Senator Joseph McCarthy
· Richard Nixon
· The Fifth Amendment
· Screen Actors Guild
· The Hollywood Ten
· Screen Writers Guild
Include one source besides your textbook.
Format the text of your letter consistent with appropriate course-level APA guidelines.
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