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What was the aftermath of Birth of a Nation?
Birth of black film
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Who was Noble Johnson?
Black actor who played many races, but not Black
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What was the Lincoln Pictures?
film company started by George and Noble Johnson.
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Who was Josephine Baker?
- -controversial actress, entertainer. sometimes protested for being partially nude and for being black
- -political activist
- -racialized, politicized, sexualized
- Siren of the Tropics (1927)
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Who was Paul Robeson?
- -singer and actor
- -politcally active (said Blacks should not fight for America, because they are not treated equally)
- ex. Emperor Jones 1933
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Who was Oscar Micheaux?
-black film maker, created Micheaux Book and Film Company
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What is Within Our Gates?
- -A film by Oscar Micheax done in 1920 possibly in response to Birth of a Nation
- -rape scene
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