CL Flick: Salt of the Earth (1954) will be shown at 3:00 pm in the Large Meeting Room. Director Herbert Biberman’s prescient drama incited a furor upon its release with the political overtones in its story about the Mexican-Americans who went on strike to protest unsafe conditions and unfair treatment at New Mexico’s Empire Zinc Mine. Presaging the civil rights and feminist movements, the 1954 film — the only one blacklisted in American history — paints a thought-provoking picture of the struggle by the miners and their families. Rated: NR. Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes.
