House Un-American Activities Committee

noun

1. an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Originally created in 1938 to inquire into subversive activities in the U.S., it was reestablished in 1945 as the Committee on Un-American Activities, renamed in 1969 as the Committee on Internal Security, and abolished in 1975. : HUAC

House Un-American Activities Committee

noun

1. the former name of the Internal Security Committee of the US House of Representatives: notorious for its anti-Communist investigations in the late 1940s and 1950s

Example Sentences

Government entities like the House Un-American Activities Committee and intelligence agencies decided who was allowed to represent the country and whose voices were unwelcome.

From New York Times

McCarthyism is remembered for its Hollywood Blacklists, investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and televised hearings of suspected communists, Soviet spies, and leftist sympathizers for allegedly infiltrating the federal government, the film industry, and prestige universities.

From Salon

But his German actress wife and left-of-center politics are put on the radar of U.S. immigration authorities and Senator McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee.

From Los Angeles Times

Barzman’s early gains in the film business, like those of other blacklisted writers, evaporated rapidly after the House Un-American Activities Committee launched a purge of suspected Communists from Hollywood beginning in the late 1940s, and she devoted her later years to exposing the era’s hurtful and often career-altering practices.

From Los Angeles Times

Fear and betrayal swept through Hollywood after World War II when the House Un-American Activities Committee arrived to ferret out communists from the major studios.

From Los Angeles Times