- Served as Film Advisor for UNESCO for five years from 1949-1954
- Was Co-Chair of the Advisory Council of the National Committee against Discrimination in Housing
- Was on Adolf Hitler's blacklist
- Founding member of the American Place Theater
- Organized an opposition to the House
Unamerican Activities Committee in Hollywood - Joined the Hollywood Chapter of Bundles for Bluejackets and worked at a Naval Auxiliary Canteen
- Worked for the Red Cross during World War 2
- Asked MGM Studio executives, "Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?"
- Assisted in the creation of the Committee for the First Amendment
- Worked for the American Association for the United Nations
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