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12 angry (white) men and no women



Were there no women allowed in jury's in the '50s? And no blacks or other minorities?
That's like asking for a biased judicial system.

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Taking the elements of race, gender and age out of the equation actually opens up the jury to more genuine issues. It'd be all too easy to simply lay the blame at bigotry and let it go at that.

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Because the movie is from 1957 you moron.

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An all-white, all-male jury was the norm in the '50s. As early as 1879, the Supreme Court ruled that the exclusion of blacks from jury selection was unconstitutional (though active and transparent discrimination still continued well into the '60s if not beyond), but the same SC ruling stated that women could be excluded. This wasn't formally reversed until 1979.

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Because USA were still a functioning country back then and not a shithole.

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Bingo

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there was at least 1 latino

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Hmmm 1957

Separate but Equal

Was STILL Law of the land,,,

Women were seldom allowed to sit on Juries until the mid 60s same with having a Bi-Racial jury

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also the CGI was terrible...

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