The organization that conducted hearings into alleged communist activity in the government and the media during the 1950s was the B. House Un-American Activities Committee or HUAC. HUAC targeted members of Hollywood, politicians, and anyone in-between who had been accused of having communist ties. The mentality of HUAC actively fed of the feeling of McCarthyism/the Red Scare of the 1950s as the Cold War got underway.
