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Blacks in Movies
Throughout the 20th Century, minorities have made significant strides towards autonomy and equality in American society.Blacks have been treated as second-class citizens since the inception of this country. Forcibly brought here as slaves to the white man, blacks have never been treated as completely equal to whites. Stereotypes of blacks as lazy, stupid, foolish, cowardly, submissive, irresponsible, childish, violent, sub-human, and animal-like, are rampant in today's society. -
Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Micheaux was an African-American filmmaker whose movies were a challenge to racial segregation.Oscar movies were known as "race" films made by black filmmakers, with a all-black cast, and black audiences.These projects were a reaction, and basic to what was then a segregated Hollywood industry and a segregated society. However although Oscar's work copy standard genres such as mysteries, gangster. his projects also addressed push button issues and were not wholly embraced by his peers. -
More about blacks in movies
Black characters had appeared in American films since the beginning of the industry in 1888.Blacks weren't even hired to portray blacks in work. Instead white actors and actresses were hired to portray the characters in "blackface.By refusing to hire black actors to portray black characters, demeaning stereotypes were being created as blacks were presented in an unfavorable light in addition blacks were to portrayed in films with negative stereotypes that reinforced white supremacy over blacks -
jazz/blues
During the jazz Era in New Orleans, Jim Crow laws greatly effect the creation of jazz. Musicians both black and creole, began incorporating crucially important elements into their music. Because of the Jim Crow Laws many professions were closed for the black community. This was also their way of expressing their feelings toward these laws and the hurtful treatment they endured
The Blues came to New Orleans with ex-slaves fleeing the Jim Crow South and bringing with them the blues. -
Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton was the first great writer and piano player of Jazz. He was a talented arranger who took advantage of the three-minute limitations of the 78 rpm records. But more than all these things.As a teenager Jelly worked in the whorehouses as a piano player. From 1904 to 1917 Jelly rambled around the South. He worked as a gambler, pool shark, pimp, vaudeville comedian and as a pianist. He was an important transitional figure between ragtime and jazz piano styles. -
Fritz Pollard
American football pioneer Fritz Pollard was one of the professional sport's first African-American players and its first African-American coach. The Pros joined the American Professional Football Association in 1920. One of just two African-American players in the league, along with Bobby Marshall, Pollard led his team to an 8-0-3 record and the APFA's first title.In 1928, Pollard organized the Chicago Black Hawks, an all-African-American professional team. -
Ragtime
During the Ragtime piano rolls were a big part of during the ragtime era for recording piano performances.As the musicians plays, the recording device captures what they play on a roll of paper, which can then play back without anyone at the piano.Ragtime was made by Rhythms derived, African American drums, Caribbean dance, and white folk tunes. -
King Of Ragtime
Scott Joplin was the king of ragtime.Scott Joplin’s popular ragtime songs got people much more interested in jazz music making him a key figure in the evolution of jazz!Scott Joplin is not worthy. Racism made it hard for his self because of him being a obstacle. He was an African American man alive during the late 1800's and 1900's, therefore he had to live under the Jim Crow laws. It was very difficult for Scott Joplin to be successful because of segregation against black people. -
Rube Foster
Rube Foster was a baseball player and manager who helped establish the Negro National League, the first successful professional league for African-American ballplayers.Rube Foster joined the Leland Giants in Chicago in 1907, as both a member and manager of the team, and quickly proved that he was as adept at organizing as he was at pitching and hitting. In 1920, he helped establish the National Negro National League the first successful professional baseball league -
Jack johnson
He was the world’s heavyweight champion.The first black man to ever hold the title. He hadn’t lost a match in four years, despite repeated challenges from high-profile white competitors and calls across the country for a “Great White Hope” to unseat him. He was rich off of endorsement fees and the prize money from all those matches he refused to lose. And he was in love with an 18-year-old white woman named Lucille Cameron. -
Harlem Renaissance
During the period Harlem was a cultural center drawing black writers, artist,musicians,photographers poets and scholars, the renaissance incorporated jazz and the blues, attracting white Harlem speakers. But the renaissance had little impact on breaking own the rigid barriers of Jim Crow that separated race.This then involved the cotton club. This was a club for and own by whites. White we to be entertain.One example was the jungle theme. -
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet was the undisputed the king of the soprano saxophone and also one of the most innovative and original clarinetists in jazz. He brought an unequaled energy, clarity and verve to his chosen instruments, and was best known for his heavy vibrato. -
Blacks in sports
Like much of society, professional American sports were segregated in the first part of the 20th Century, preventing black athletes from competing with white athletes.Black players were common in professional football in the late 19th century and through 1933, when segregation was introduced by team owners.The pressure to segregate came from fan demand, and was enforced by game commissioners, working through a collusive league structure. -
Race movies
Northern Blacks responded to Birth of a Nation by producing their own movies. "Race movies" were all-black affairs that were made for Black audiences. The most successful Black film producer of the first half of the Twentieth Century. Micheaux's most important film was Within Our Gates (1920), an uncompromising look at racial attitudes and prejudice among both Blacks and Whites, and it included both a rape and a lynching.
