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This Week in People’s History, Sept. 26-Oct. 2

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Police mugshot of civil rights activist Mary Hamilton Racist judges get schooled (in 1963). School integration? No way (1958). A very deadly parade (1918). Prisoners of conscience (1943). Broadway says 'no' to racism (1933). No way to run a website (2013). Abolitionists unite! (1833)

How Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus Broke the Hollywood Blacklists

Taylor Dorrell Convergence
Telling the story of a slave revolt in ancient Rome, the 1960 film Spartacus was penned by two blacklisted Communist writers. Its arrival in theaters was a middle finger to the McCarthyist witch hunt in Hollywood and publishing.
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