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Gumby was created by Art Clokey in the early 1950s after he finished film school at the University of Southern California (USC). [1]Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film titled Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia. [10]
58. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —Alice Walker 59. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.
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February is Black History Month and we've rounded up 120 inspiring Black History Month quotes from civil rights icons including Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois. These ...
Carter G. Woodson was born in New Canton, Virginia, [7] on December 19, 1875, the son of former slaves Anne Eliza (Riddle) and James Henry Woodson. [8] Although his father was illiterate, Carter's mother, Anna, had been taught to read by her mistress.
Members of black fraternities and sororities call themselves Greek because "Greece was a culturally diverse pluralistic society of various ethnic and racial groups—much like the United States of today. However, the citizens were mostly dark-skinned black and brown people" according to journalists and Alpha Phi Alpha brother Tony Brown. [143]
The episode "The Fifties Show" depicted a fictional black-and-white show called That's Our Rosie. In it, a Reddy Kilowatt doll was used in a fake commercial for a utility company, pitched by Dan and DJ in the manner of the early days of television in the 1950s, when shows featured the performers promoting their sponsor's products. [39]
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