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Arthur Miller was a playwright who transformed American theater. Millers plays were influenced by the depression and showed political and moral convictions. Miller had created his characters to deal with power, conflicts, personal and social responsibility, guilt and hope, and the repercussions of past actions. His play "the crucible" was a fictional story about the Salem Witch hunts of 1692.====== http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/arthur-miller/none-without-sin/56/**
 * http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/miller/biography.html



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The Red Scare was a nationwide fear of communists, socialists, anarchists, and other opposing people, followed by a series of anarchist bombings. The nation was gripped in fear. Innocent people were jailed for expressing themselves, and many feared that a Bolshevik- style revolution was at hand.======


 * http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Saccov/redscare.html**

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During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Communist Party found ready recruits among the unemployed. Communists were instrumental in organizing factory workers in the newly formed unions of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. They took a leading role in the civil-rights movement, decades before other whites dared.======

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A generation of notable American writers, including Arthur Miller, were associated with either the party or its literary affiliate, the John Reed Clubs. Named for Reed, an American radical who had chronicled the Russian Revolution in one of his books, the clubs were a way to recruit young intellectuals into party circles.======

**Ron Grossman. "Transcripts Reveal Ugly Details of McCarthy's Red Scare Browbeating." Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) 18 May 2003: n.p.** //**SIRS Researcher.**// **Web. 16 December 2009.**


 * The FBI read his play //The Hook//, about a militant union organizer, and he was denied a passport to attend the Brussels premiere of his play THE CRUCIBLE.

****http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/amiller.htm http://www.radfilms.com/huac_title.JPG**


 * HUAC:** The House of Un-American Activities was set up in 1938 to investigate fascists as well as communists within federal government. In 1947, it turned its attention to the arts, and a group of writers, directors, and actors known as the Hollywood Ten, were convicted of contempt of congress. Among those people was Arthur Miller, convicted in 1957.