In the late 1950s, Rod Serling was trying to write politically charged stories for the screen, to reflect the fraught political climate of the United States, but found that no network would air them. If he wrote a straightforward TV drama about a hot-button issue like the murder of Emmett Till, then censors and advertisers and network executives would immediately worry about alienating viewers or sparking controversy.
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