Show Notes:

Researched and backed by FBI files of author/scholar Dr. Carol Stabile (University of Oregon), this 4-episode series mentions names of talented women whose careers were maliciously ruined with the 1950 publication of Red Channels. You’ll also hear from Cynthia also visits with another author and scholar, Dr. Charlene Regester, engaging in a frank conversation about how racism, Jim Crow laws, and segregation further changed the course of early TV.

Broadcast 41 by Carol Stabile  https://broadcast41.uoregon.edu/

African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility 1900–1960 by Charlene Register  https://iupress.org/9780253221926/african-american-actresses/

Ruth Gordon on Hugh Downs, 1981

Ellen Schrecker (1999) Many Are The Crimes