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...money on, played a gentle, shuffling, eye-rolling subservient in movies of the 1920s and '30s (Show Boat, Stand Up and Cheer); of congestive heart failure and pneumonia; in Woodland Hills, Calif. When a 1968 TV documentary accused Stepin Fetchit of popularizing the stereotype of the lazy Negro, Perry brought an unsuccessful $3 million defamation suit. "I had to defy a law that said Negroes were supposed to be inferior," he said. "I was a star--the first Negro movie star--when the black man couldn't get work in the movies except playing shoeshine boys...
Bond and classmate James Bows, Jr. ’55 wrote, “Some of the onlookers cheered when, after ten minutes, the cross was knocked down, but we are sorry to say that others expressed indignation at its destruction. Minutes later a Negro student passing thru the Yard was hailed with remarks such as might be expected in the Klan-dominated states of the South...
...documentaries in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival. Now in its fourth year, the fast-growing festival, held in downtown Manhattan, screened more than 250 films of all kinds from 45 countries and sold 135,000 tickets. The award for best documentary feature went to El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War, by director Peter Forgacs, a collage brilliantly assembled from the work of two amateur filmmakers of the period. The prize for best documentary short went to director Dan Krauss for The Life of Kevin Carter, the tragic story of a photojournalist who took...
...August Wilson's plays, this one reverberates across generations. Years later, Paramount was trying to make a movie out of Wilson's play Fences, and Barry Levinson was interested in directing. Wilson thought of his mother when he nixed the idea, insisting that the play--about a former Negro League baseball player struggling to support a family in 1957--must be directed by an African American: "Man, I'm thinking, 'Something is not always better than nothing.' She influenced me in ways like that...
...victory of poverty over circumstance. The prejudiced regarded him as an anthropoid in trunks. Before his first match with German Boxer Max Schmeling in 1936, a Nazi journalist wrote, "It is hoped that the representative of the white race will succeed in halting the unusual rise of the Negro." His hopes were not disappointed; Louis lost to Schmeling in the twelfth round. When the American won the rematch with a one-round knockout, his countrymen exulted, but by then the jungle-killer image of Louis had become endemic. He was now compared to "a savage tiger" and "an irate cobra...