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African-American Segment

posted 12 years ago by soulthinker
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Saw the African-American segment of the movie and I wondered if that was removed at theaters in the South? Anyway I learned something everyday and I had first seen it on a late show on WTTG-TV in the late 70s.

[–] cael22 11 years ago

What actors were in that segment?

[–] kimmylita 10 years ago

It was very different from the other segments. They highlighted African Americans that had made significant contributions in various areas like government, science, sports, entertainment., etc.

[–] gribfritz2 10 years ago

Probably. I wish it were removed from MY broadcast as well as all of the other snippets shown inbetween the episodes. They were tedious.

[–] bear022013-909-645034 8 years ago

Why was there no Irish-Catholic,Italian,Polish,Lithuanian....and soon.
I shut it off at 11:20 today.
TCM is now about women and blacks.
Ted Turner is not involved.

[–] skat1140 8 years ago

It seems like a hugely progressive message, coming at the height of McCarthyism in the US and Jim Crow/segregationism in the South.

Brown vs. Board of Education is in 1954.

It'll be 15 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1965.

The Black Americans segment must've been a thumb in the eye to Southerners of that time.

[–] bear022013-909-645034 8 years ago

Better still,it is insulting and gratuitous.Why bother?