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The Hate That Hate Produced
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The opening as it read in 2010
The Hate That Hate Produced is a television documentary about the Nation of Islam .1 It was produced in 1959 by Mike Wallace and Louis Lomax .
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Then
television documentary about the nation of islam
Now
television documentary about black nationalism in the united states
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