An Artist Takes a Stand
by Linda Lombardi, Literary Manager In The Tallest Tree in the Forest, writer/performer Daniel Beaty performs a scene of Paul Robeson testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee on June 12, 1956. In the years following World War II, America experienced a growing anxiety over the rise of Communism in Eastern Europe and China, and its presence in America. On February 9, 1950, a young Senator from Wisco…