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In 2009 American playwright Tony Kushner completed his play The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, whose main character is a fictional cousin of Vito Marcantonio. The play premiered in Minneapolis in 2009 and had a brief run off Broadway in New York in 2011.
Marcantonio is referenced in the 2010 book A Renegade History of the United States by noted historian Thaddeus Russell in the section "Italian Americans: Out of Africa" as "one of the greatest champions of black civil rights during the 1930s and 1940s" (p188. He is also said to have "sponsored several civil rights bills, led the congressional fight against discriminatory poll tax in southern states, and worked to make lynching a federal crime" (188).
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