Celebrating Black History Month
African-American Writers
Walter Film established a designated section in it’s comprenehsive collection that includes black artists, film makers and writers, such as the likes of Lorraine Hansbury, Maya Angelou and Scott Joplin, all represented here.
Blaxploitation
After the cultural misre…
A Taste Of Jazz
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
In celebration of Black History Month, WalterFilm is pleased to provide this profile on the seminal contribution African Americans made in the birth and evolution of Jazz.
Bojangles Robinson, The Toe-Tapping Wonder
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson (born Luther Robinson; May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949), was an American tap dancer, actor, and singer, the best known and the most highly paid black entertainer in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.
His long career began…
GORDON PARKS – WRITER / DIRECTOR
Gordon Parks was a Black American who successfully wore many hats as photographer, composer, author, poet, writer and film director. He became prominent in the U.S. in 1940s through 1970s for documentary photojournalism —particularly with issues of civil rights, poverty and th…
FIRST BLACK ACTOR TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE
Stepin Fetchit, an American vaudevillian and comedian is considered to be the first black actor to have a successful film career that made him a millionaire.
Josephine Baker – An African-American in Paris
THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH: Paris: Henri Manuel, (1927). Vintage original 9 1/2 x 7″ (24 x 18 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, France. Photo has on verso a stamp of photographer Henri Manuel and a 1927 date stamp, NEAR FINE.
Joséphine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; naturalized Fre…
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