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Asian Lesbians of the East Coast (ALOEC) was founded in New York City. [16] “Asian Women’s Potluck Gathering for Asian Lesbians,” first such publicly advertised event [12] Asian lesbians protest Ollie's “Oriental Night,” an evening where the Oakland lesbian bar's employees wore "oriental" costumes and makeup. [17]
The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, [21] were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American ...
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Abbott and Costello in Hollywood: S. Sylvan Simon: Abbott and Costello, Lucille Ball, Rags Ragland: Comedy: MGM: Adventure: Victor Fleming: Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell
Laura at the TCM Movie Database; Eagan, Daniel (2010). "Laura". America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry. A & C Black. pp. 375– 377. ISBN 978-0826-42977-3. Streaming audio. Laura on Lux Radio Theater: February 5, 1945; Laura on Screen Guild Theater: August 20, 1945; Laura on Ford ...
The movie itself was a box office success but showed Arabs as savage beasts who auction off their own women. The film was followed up a few years later with The Son of the Sheik, which also portrayed racist overtones. Rudolph was even asked by a New York Times reporter once whether or not his well-off character could fall for a savage (an Arab ...
Based on Alan Paton's 1948 novel of the same name about a black minister's journey to Johannesburg to find his son in Apartheid South Africa. 1949: Pinky: Elia Kazan: A light-skinned black woman has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. She falls in love with a doctor who knows nothing about her black heritage. 1947: Hi-De-Ho ...