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William Gailmor began his career in the 1930s as an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in New York. By the 1940s he was a nationally known journalist and radio news commentator.
He was blacklisted in the late 1940s for presenting “popular front” viewpoints on the radio. The popular front was a mass democratic social movement that embraced labor rights, civil rights, and economic democracy.
By 1950 he had returned to journalism, writing a regular column on human welfare issues for a liberal newspaper, the
Daily Compass.
Scholars writing on U.S. politics and the media during the mid-twentieth century have paid little attention to lesser known journalists such as Gailmor.
1:00 William Gailmor began his career in the 1930s as an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in New York. By the 1940s he was a nationally known journalist and radio news commentator.
He was blacklisted in the late 1940s for presenting “popular front” viewpoints on the radio. The popular front was a mass democratic social movement that embraced labor rights, civil rights, and economic democracy.
By 1950 he had returned to journalism, writing a regular column on human welfare issues for a liberal newspaper, the
Daily Compass.
Scholars writing on U.S. politics and the media during the mid-twentieth century have paid little attention to lesser known journalists such as Gailmor.