ocr: This emotionally charged film was made during the McCarthy era; locked out of the Hollywood studio system, a group ofblacklisted tilmmakers banded together to film a moving and controversial portrait of human courage. Salt ofthe Earthis based on a 1950 strike by zinc miners in Silver City, New Mexico, Against a backdrop of social injustice, a Mexican-American miner and his wife, Kamon and Esperanza Zuintero, find their roles reversed:an injunction against the male strikers moves the women to take over the picket line, leaving the men to domestic duties. The women evolve from men's subordinates ...
