From this promotional material, the viewer receives a preview of the different types of relationships the film will elaborate upon, none of which include family. The viewer sees Cochise in a letterman’s jacket, with young women that he appears…
The images in this final piece of promotional material show boys attempting to be men in the only way they know how, by acquiring women and staying loyal to people outside of the home. Unlike in Sounder, the characters in Cooley High perform…
In this promotional material, Nathan Lee and his son depict the present, future, and the consistency of poverty and harsh conditions affecting a black farming family in the rural South. As an exhibition of life after the abolition of slavery, the…
Family relationships are prevalent withinSounder. The film shows white supremacy as having explicit social and economic consequences for the Morgan family. This lobby card shows David Lee giving his father the cake baked by his mother. David is…
This image of a Sambo doll from 1945 is one example of the breadth of representation and popularity that the Sambo character achieved in the 19th and early 20th centuries.Writers and illustrators created thousands of variations of the characters…
The first scenes of the Sambo story introduce Little Black Sambo’s family to the readers. Violet La Mont’s 1959 edition of Little Black Sambo depicts Sambo and his family as more phenotypically Indian compared to the representations in…
In 1963, Rev. James Bevel, along with several other key organizers, orchestrated a movement in Birmingham, AL known as the “Birmingham Children’s Crusade,”unique inthatitfeatured children astheprimary participants. As the policing…
In 1963, the youth were the driving force behind the movements in Birmingham, AL. While most envision Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy when thinking of Birmingham, it was the children, as old as 17 years old and as young as six,…
The Birmingham Children’s Crusade of 1963was innovative,original, and efficient.The use of children not only multiplied the number of active participants tenfold but it also provided organizers with amuch-neededbypass around employment and…