A Crime to Fit the Punishment

Black-listed Salt of the Earthhonors 1950s Empire Zinc strike in Grant County, New Mexico

By Christopher Capozzola

Unless you attended its 10-week run at New York City's Grand Theatre in 1954, you missed Salt of the Earth the first time around. In the decades since, director Herbert Biberman's dramatic account of the real-life strike by the men and women of a Mexican-American mining [RETURN TO ARTICLE]