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Sidney Poitier (1927–2022), pictured in 1963, was the first Black movie star and the first Black male winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949), pictured in 1946, was an American tap dancer, actor, singer, perhaps best known today for his Shirley Temple films.
Chief among them was Edward P. McCabe, who envisioned so large a number of African-Americans settling in the territory that it would become a Black-governed state. In Texas, 357 such "freedom colonies" have been located and verified.
Sarah Rector was born in 1902 near the all-black town of Taft, located in Indian Territory, which became the eastern portion of Oklahoma. [2] She had five siblings. Her parents were Rose McQueen and husband Joseph Rector (both born 1881), [7] who were the Black grandchildren of Creek Indians before the Civil War, [8] and were descendants of the Muscogee Creek Nation after the Treaty of 1866.
First African-American (mixed-race) to win a men's major golf championship: Tiger Woods (The Masters) [Note 23] First African-American model to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition: Tyra Banks; First African-American UFC champion: Maurice Smith; First African-American Director of the National Park Service: Robert Stanton [288]
Acrimony (film) The Adventures of Pluto Nash; The Affair (1995 film) Affirmations (film) Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison; Alex Cross (film) Ali (film) All About the Benjamins; All Eyez on Me (film) Almost Christmas (film) Alpha Man: The Brotherhood of MLK; American Gangster (film) Anna Lucasta (1958 film) Annie (2014 film) Antebellum ...
East Palo Alto – one of Silicon Valley's largest Black percentage cities, declined from a Black majority or plurality in 1970s and 1980s (17% from 2010) Emeryville. Fairfield. Tolenas; Folsom (historic Negro Bar). Fresno. Edison (Southwest Fresno) Hayward – communities found in Jackson Triangle, North Hayward, and Upper B Street areas ...
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (US: / m ɪ ˈ ʃ oʊ / ⓘ; (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, [1] Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent ...
Richard E. Norman. Born in Middleburg, Florida in 1891, [4] Richard Edward Norman started his film career in the Midwest making movies for white audiences in the 1910s. His early work was a series of "home talent" films, in which he would travel to various towns with stock footage and a basic script; after recruiting local celebrities for minor roles, they would film a small portion of footage ...