[BLANK-1] is оne оf the very few films frоm the Jim Crow Erа thаt critiqued segregаtion. It is even more unusual for being one of the extremely few films of any era to correctly portray the fact that other racial minorities in addition to African Americans suffered from discrimination in the era of segregation. In the film, a Mexican-American family is denied the right to eat in a diner. Even the intervention of the film’s protagonist – a wealthy and powerful white man – fails to produce a happy ending as the Hispanic family (and the white man’s family) are forced to leave the diner.