She was blacklisted during McCarthyism. Now she’s speaking out against Florida’s teaching standards
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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
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