“Sorry, boys,” said the old man, squinting through his wire-rimmed glasses as the reels on the movie projector spun to a halt and somebody switched on the lights. “But I can’t let you show a film like that in Memphis.” The movie he previewed was a 1947 Hal Roach comedy called Curley, and it showed black children and white children attending school together. That was all it took for the old man to declare it “inimical to the morals and welfare of our city,” as he would explain later. He also

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