“The Twilight Zone”: A Creation of Censoring
An Early Run-In With Censors Led Rod Serling to ‘The Twilight Zone’ His failed attempts to bring the Emmett Till tragedy to television forced him to get creative By Jackie Mansky/Smithsonian.com In August of 1955, Emmett Till, an African-American boy from Chicago was abducted, beaten, and shot while visiting family in Mississippi. A nation divided […]