years later, arthur miller was called before huac because he had a communist past and he didn't takehe fifth amendment but he refused to answer we we he didn't companies answer but asked a question and the subject turned away from that. he would not name names and talked only about himself and he was cited for tennessee tempt. times, be ollywood they stood up and said they had the right to freedom of speech and were cited for contempt and imprisoned. brian: your father's lawyer george crockett, congressman. david: yeah. i didn't know any of that. george crockett later became a congressman from detroit. e was part of a integrated law firm in detroit before there were really anywhere else. and he was a leftist but not a communist ever. but he believed deeply in protecting the rights of controversial minority groups. the same rights are due to members of the communist party have been denied to african-americans so he saw a connection between the two. he wrote a statement called "freedom is everyone's business." that was his strong sort of manifesto defense of why he was defending commun