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Horton Addresses Racism in Los Angeles

Horton Addresses Racism in Los Angeles (035.00.00)

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In response to a newspaper report of police brutality toward Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, Lester Horton choreographed The Park (1949), set to street sounds and a dialogue by Sonia Browne. At the end of Browne’s script, she noted “I feel there should be no epilogue. If the audience does not understand without further explanation, they will never understand!”
In response to a newspaper report of police brutality toward Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, Lester Horton choreographed <em>The Park</em> (1949), set to street sounds and a dialogue by Sonia Browne. At the end of Browne’s script, she noted “I feel there should be no epilogue. If the audience does not understand without further explanation, they will never understand!”