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Callioux's Death Asks: "Can These Peo...
The death of Capt. André Cailloux, commanding Company E of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards, at Port Hudson spread shock waves through New Orleans—and one of the largest funeral processions in the city's history. It also prompted larger questions about race and identity.
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The Negro Soldier 1944
Capra produced this film as a follow-up to the Why We Fight series. At the time it came out it was regarded very highly. Capra was most fastidious about avoiding cliches about black people that had dogged most Hollywood product from the beginning. Like the Why We Fight pictures, this one was inte...
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Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Leader
On December 1, 1955, a soft-spoken African-American seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, as dictated by existing segregation laws. She was neither the first African American, nor the first woman to challenge the segregation laws within a public transportation sy...
