Actor, writer, director and activist Ossie Davis narrates this look at the history of race films, those produced from the 1920s-50s catered to a primarily Black audience.
Ossie Davis
Narrator
George Johnson
Self (archive sound)
Lorenzo Tucker
Lucia Lynn Moses
Fredi Washington
Henry Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Josephine Baker
Leslie Banks
Clarence Brooks
Cab Calloway
Walter Connolly
Miriam Cooper
Dudley Digges
Duke Ellington
Marcus Garvey
Lillian Gish
Jack Johnson
Noble Johnson
Walter Long
William Lundigan
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