In the 1930s we had books and some movies that used the sort of voodoo legend to create creepy stories. It wasn't really until the book I Am Legend which is a 1954 horror fiction novel by an American writer called Richard Matheson which was also turned into a film. In 1968 by George A. Romero it wasn't until that film really that zombies properly entered popular culture. The hero in Night of the Living Dead is a black man in America during the era of the civil rights movement.

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