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50 STATES, 50 MOVIES: ALABAMA:

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From A Place Marred By A Brutal History Of Oppression, Come Our Greatest Heroes

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Jan 08, 2023
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To Kill A Mockingbird

It may be easy to dismiss this choice as too obvious or too stereotypical. A movie about racism and Alabama; *eye-roll*, but To Kill A Mockingbird is more than just a work of art about racism and bigotry in the Jim Crow South, it’s narrative about courage, loss of innocence, the ugliness of reality and the economic and social inst…

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