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Though best known for its activities in the 1950s, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) had its start in the late 1930s, when it served as an irritant to Roosevelt. Founded on 26 May 1938 and chaired by Martin Dies of Texas, the HUAC was created to investigate fascist organizations such as the German-American Bund and the Silver Shirts, but it rapidly expanded its efforts to include investigations of socialist, communist, and liberal organizations. The committee played an instrumental role in closing the Federal Writers' Project in 1938 and the Federal Theatre Project the following year. Its attacks against New Deal supporter Frank Murphy, governor of Michigan, for his sympathies with sit-down strikers played a crucial role in Murphy's defeat when he ran for reelection in 1938.
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David Bell, Marxian Socialism in the United States (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967);
David H. Bennett, Demagogues in the...
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