She was blacklisted during McCarthyism. Now she's speaking out against Florida's teaching standards
Source: AP
By KATE PAYNE
Updated 1:55 PM CST, November 18, 2025
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — At 100 years old, Lee Grant knows the cost of McCarthyism better than almost anyone else on the planet.
One of the last surviving actors to be blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare, the Academy Award-winning performer is speaking out against Florida’s new social studies teaching standards, which critics have warned are aimed at rewriting one of the most repressive chapters in American history.
“It’s a lie and a distortion of the truth of history,” Grant said in an interview with The Associated Press.
In 1951, Grant’s star was on the rise. But just as her career was taking off, it was derailed and she was blacklisted, barred from working in film or television for the next 12 years after she refused to name names in front of the congressional committee that investigated so-called “un-American activities.”
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I didn't know her political history, but am so glad to learn she's still with us, literally and figuratively.
