1922: Abie's Irish Rose, a play about a racially mixed marriage is performed 2,532 times on Broadway—a record at the time.
1993: The Crying Game, a movie exploring themes of racial, sexual, and national identity, becomes a mainstream hit after initially being considered "artistically risky" and playing to small audiences.
1924: The Ku Klux Klan threatens black actor Paul Robeson's life for his portrayal of a white man married to a black woman in Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings.
1996: There are more than one million.....
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