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Sorry, this was my first post here and must have responded to you directly by mistake. It was directed to the OP.
Fonda had seen a black man lynched in 1910 and the sense of injustice stayed with him.
So much wrong here.
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Louise Beavers and Stepin' Fetchit had speaking roles in movies with Stewart.
As for being ultra conservative, Stewart actually opposed HUAC and he did support some democratic senators. He also thought the public should go easy on Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
In the recent book 'Hank and Jim', both Peter Fonda and Kelly Stewart cast doubt on the story of Hal Williams. Kelly says "There weren't a lot of black people in my dad's life but he wasn't a racist."
There are tons of circumstantial evidence that he wasn't a racist.
I don't go much on biopics these days. Never saw this one on Judy and also missed the one on Laurel and Hardy.
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