When pete seeger appeared before the house committee on un-american activities in 1955, he refused to answer the committee's questions about his personal beliefs. he based his refusal on: ?

When Pete Seeger appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1955, he refused to answer the committee's questions about personal beliefs based on the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech.

During the Cold War Era, The House Committee on Un-American Activities interrogated more than 3000 government officials, teachers, labor union leaders, artists and other people trying to purgue Communist ideas in America. Seeger refused to invoke the Fifth Amentment, which protects citizens from self-incrimination. Instead, he invoked the First Amendment and insisted that the Committee had no right to question him on his ideas or associations.

apart from being against desegregation, governor of georgia eugene talmadge opposed as well to the work progress administration, an ambitious program of the "new deal" created by president franklin d. roosevelt to overcome the great depression after world war i. talmadge disagreed with welfare spending, job training and organized labor. according to his ideas, he thought the government was spending too much money on this, and he wasn't willing to accept a wage higher than georgia's lower average wage. besides, talmadge strongly opposed to the "new deal" as he thought it had communist ideas.

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