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Image in the Hampton Archive of Martin Luther King holding two small girls in the Selma to Montgomery march of 1965. In the image above, Martin Luther King holdstwochildrenduring the Selma to Montgomery march of1965,their names areSheyannWebb and…

Set in 1933 during The Great Depression, the characters inSounderare integrated within the natural and social landscape of a time when many Americans experienced poverty and hopelessness. To promote the film,lobby cards provided audiences with a…

The middle page of the promotional material forThe Spook Who Sat By the Doorshows a collage of chaos and action. In the forefront one can see a masked man holding down another man’s arm in a fight, a man next to him with a gun, and behind…

Imitation of Lifeis a Hollywood film adaptation of the 1933 novel,Imitation of Life, by St. Louisan Fannie Hurst. The first film adaptation, released in 1934, was black-and-white, and a second color adaptation was released in 1959. Fannie Hurst, a…

TheStory of Little Black Sambois rooted in intense racialized stereotypes of black people and black children in particular. Originally published by Helen Bannerman in the late 19thcentury, the story displays discriminatory pickaninny caricatures…

Furthermore, this version ofLittle Black Samborejects the dehumanization and animalization that appear in many earlier versions. In the illustration with the four tigers,Babajistands small behind a tree. The tigers are twice or three…

The imageofthe tigerssitting in a circlebeside a tree, each with a piece of Sambo’s clothing, represents many of the cultural representations of black people.Though the dehumanization of the black “other” began centuries ago,…