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There were thousands of Americans who were persecuted by Joe McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Five of these were Leonard Bernstein, musician; Albert Einstein, physicist; Allen Ginsberg, poet; Pete Seeger, folksinger and Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and stripper.

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