Black Hollywood the Way It Was. Fading In – Part 2

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This program begins with the decision by the NAACP to answer D. W. Griffith’s racist epic, The Birth of A Nation, by producing a film that would highlight and celebrate Black progress, The Birth of A Race. Fortunately, in that same year, 1915, Noble Johnson, an African American, established the Lincoln Motion Picture Company that made history with its first film, The Realization of a Negro’s Ambition, which became the first movie to portray Blacks in a positive image.

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27 min 20 sec

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