{"value"=>"<p>The interviews were conducted by Ms Sayre during the 1970s in preparation of her historical writings on American society, culture and politics. Audiotaped interviews are listed in Series. XII Sound Recordings.</p> <p>The notes and transcripts are arranged alphabetically by name of interviewee. They consist of Ms Sayre's handwritten notes hurriedly scrawled in spiral notebooks (now disbanded) made during the interview; and typed transcripts of interviews made from her notes or from audiotapes. Parts of some transcripts bear the notation \"not on tape\". A transcript of an interview conducted by Barbara Hogensen with Albert and Frances Hackett is filed at the end of the alphabetical series. Additional notes and transcripts of interviews are scattered in Series II. Research Papers as noted below.</p> <p>The bulk of the interviews are with persons affected by Congressional and other official investigations into Communism, Communists, and subversive activities which occurred in America during the 1950s in the aftermath of World War II. largely under the influence of Senator Joseph McCarthy. The interviews were conducted by Ms Sayre with screenwriters, novelists, lawyers, Theatre critics, playwrights, actors, and others including Leonard Boudin, Harold Clurman, Malcolm Cowley, James T. Farrell, Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner, Dwight Macdonald, Arthur Miller, and Victor Rabinowitz. A wide range of subject matters is covered including blacklisting in the motion picture industry, the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Eastland Committee, loyalty oaths, the F.B.I., the Cold War, the Korean War, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, racial desegregation, and expatriate Americans. Many interviewees relate their personal experience during the 1920s-1930s. The interviews were made during the course of her research for her historical writings, especially her book Previous Convictions: a Journey through the 1950s (New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press c1995),</p> <p>Additional notes and/ or transcripts of interviews including an interview with Autherine Lucy (Box 38), the first black student to attend the University of Alabama, are located in Series II. Research Papers in the following containers and folders: Box 19, f. 7: James Aronson; Henry Steele Commager; Herman and Betty Liveright; Victor Rabinowitz; Maurice Rapf; Joel G. Sayre. Box 20, f. 3-5: Douglas Dowd; Peter Goldschmidt; Charles Muscatine; Kenneth Stampp and Leon Litwack; Joseph Tussman. Box 21, f. 1: Bernard Kottan. Box 21, f. 4: Harold Clurman; Philip Dunne; Ephraim London; Alice and Ian Hunter; Sam Moore; Polanskys; Anne [B...?] Box 21, f. 5: Maurice Rapf; Sam Moore; Patricia Bosworth; Carey McWilliams; Victor Chapin; Erik Wensberg; Albert Maltz; Dorothy Healey. Box 22, f. 3: Mary Y[...?]. Box 22, f. 5: Maurice Greenbaum. Box 22, f. 4: Allen Zak. Box 23, f. 3: Edith Kane; Erik Wensberg; Robert Duncan. Box 23, f. 4: Al Richmond; Florence Mischel; Bill Powell; Sam Kushner. Box 23, f. 5: Sidney Roger; Alvah Bessie; Carleton Goodlett. Box 31, f. 5: J. Oakes; Sy Peck; A. H. Raskin; Alden Whitman. Box 32, f. 4: Walker Evans and Hank O'N.; Walker Evans - tapes from the Estate; Leslie Katz and Jane Mayhall; Calvert Coggeshall; Paul Grotz; John Hioll on Walker Evans; John Macdonald; William McDonough; Elizabeth Shaw; John Szarkowki; Jerry Thompson; Erik Wensberg. Box 33, f. 3: Chris Beels. Box 33, f. 8: Alice and Ian Hunter; excerpts? of interviews with Beatrice R[...?], Laslo Benedek, and Ring Lardner. Box 36, f. 3: Alger Hiss. Box 38, f. 2. Seymour Krim. Box 38, 4: Hans Lewy. Box 38, f. 8: Jefferson Bennett; Judge Crooks; Culpepper Clark. Box 38, f. 9: Autherine Lucy; Constance Baker Motley; Arthur Shores. Box 40, f. 8: James B. Griffin. Box 42, f. 3: Benson Wolman; Robert Bremner; Stanley and Louise Robinson; Megan Mountain. Box 42, f. 5: Wilma Shore Solomon. Box 42, f. 7: Abe Polansky. Box 43, f. 6: Arnold Weinstein. Box 44, f. 1: Nick Wahl; A. Weinstein and Kimball; Bill Alfred et al. Box 45, f. 5: Typed transcript of interview conducted by Lewis C. Branscomb with Joel G. Sayre. Box 46, f. 8: Dwight Macdonald. Box 47, f. 4: Interview with Donald Ogden Stewart conducted by Max Wilk. Box 47, f. 9: Emily Hahn. Box 47, f. 10: Ann Honecutt; Joseph Mitchell. Box 48, f. 1: Edith Haggard; Nunnally Johnson</p>"}