This was the first Hollywood movie to be officially be permitted to use the word "nigger" after The Emperor Jones (1933). Previously, the Hays Code had forbidden it since 1934.
This film was banned by the government in Southern Rhodesia. When it eventually was allowed to be screened in public though, natives and children were not allowed at showings.
This 1949 movie features an African-American soldier. A year before, in 1948, Executive Order 9981 by President Harry S. Truman mandated that US Armed Forces be fully integrated.
This movie was called "the first picture dealing with anti-Negro prejudice" by 'The Motion Picture Herald'.
According to the Australian video-cassette release sleeve notes of this movie, scriptwriter "Carl Foreman changed the Jew of the play to an African-American to avoid clashing with two previously released films on the same subject - Barriera invisibile (1947) and Odio implacabile (1947)].