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The House Committee on Un-American Activities is established in Washington DC, USA, as a special investigating committee, looking into alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist or fascist ties. By the 1950s, the committee will have seriously overstepped its remit and will incur the wrath of many actors, artists, singers and other performers accused of 'disloyalty'. The 1965 song House Un-American Blues Activity Dream by Mimi and Richard Farina will be inspired by the actions of this committee.
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