![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1939, Hattie McDaniel-who already had appeared in more than a dozen films-was cast as Mammy in Gone With the Wind and won an Oscar. Other movies, though, depicted Blacks in the stereotypical roles-e.g., servants and maids-that would persist for decades between 19, for example, nine films were made of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Micheaux went on to produce many other movies, casting Paul Robeson in one and, in 1930, adding talking pictures. A few years later, the enterprising farmer Oscar Micheaux offered a stark counterpoint to Griffith’s movie when he filmed The Homesteader, based on his own life. Aired in Woodrow Wilson’s White House in 1915, the movie, based on a novel about the Ku Klux Klan, soon attracted more than 25 million viewers nationwide, inciting vociferous protests among Blacks. Griffith’s scandalous epic, The Birth of a Nation. A chronicle of the long struggle for Black Americans to matter in movies.ĭrawing on interviews with directors, actors, producers, and screenwriters, as well as published and archival sources, journalist, biographer, and Guggenheim fellow Haygood creates an encyclopedic history of Blacks’ film presence, beginning with D.W. ![]()
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