Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-01-17
Legion Tor DOeOncY Towards Negroes in Movies:
Magazine Attacks Song of the South
Editorial In February edition Esany Magazine
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Hollywood has gone and done Il again
From the studio Walt Disney another
Nanny minded plantation psudesd that The Birth of
Nation have done disrupt peaceful relations and SGT
Appropriately prsmsrSd Atlanta with fanfare reserved
only such other Deyed Aims With the Wind the dialect
ursuod Song Of the South once again that while the
Negro the century Hollywood
Produced tschneoO though Is strictly lily white propaganda
Song Of the South everything Its critics warned against II anti
Negro the Uncle Remun stories which based bhey
carries out the spirit Of author Joel Chandler Harris who learned
sp Negro with capital James Basket who symboeAy enough
taken from tho Amos Andy radio show Remu
Uncle TOmAun JsmmA eareAtus complete with all thu AwunE
standard hsreohe toohy smile battered beard
and PROPULSION Of d" and dat talk lie lives hs ovabs"
bEesany to Dixie audiences whom Negro who bows and
SerapsS 10 "lOvabls"
DisnCyS Best Of Intentions
There will be many hos"nnaS for this Disney Almsome from
we'll meaning friends Of the Negro who will fall victim the Disney
lure of delightful eSroonnE and beautiful color inevitable that
thousands Americans will swallow the bait Of Of the South
out Of hasrS Whng hit like How DO You Dot and ZPA
DOOpHh And uneOnuSy they will Uncle RsmuS and all his
Uncle TomSmS the model of how Negroes should behave white
company
OF course Disney that Song
with the Of intentions Of them being and
heading Of folklore" and "hSsOryof course told by parOnG
white author.
No matter what Dsnsys AIM Song
Americas biggest minority in S battle to get deal Like other
hsRrksn back the dead slavery
and portray chapter In the Negroes past In way that tends to reule
and lower h standing in the community the Disney effort
but snrHEs all educated Negroes and number Of
Time puts L.
The Great God Southern Box Office
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look slavery the charming
nhumRn Of
RAnkns
have read "whs Only" SIgn jobs homes and public drinking
the Negro less than full American pOrayA
Of win dangerous s, fsstSrinE In
American lfe
Virtually every Hollywood studio along with Walt Disney
pSrpeuAng the Of the Negro slave
sraAng blot the American No studio has
hands when the indictment drawn against the capital FOR
outright falsiheaon pOrraying the Negro
leading white West Coast the San Francisco
ChrOncs recently nOted even tho hm failed just about
ssrahy their predecessors prsS picture Of the
Negro significant human being in dAmaHsd relationship the
world he lives In"
defense against the charge that the NegrC
people presented other than welding watermelon
eating sysrog clad menA Producers their hands
bow down the God Southern Box Office
present Negroes dEnihsd Americans would nfua
they And America and the world eoiOret
Mcdaniel Rochester version
not at ALL
Making Hollywood Reform
Many the that have been made change HOywOOd
Certainly there lack Of protest against Song Of the South
When Negro Clarence hired by Disney help
story be suEEsd presenting Negroes Guhd
lookng individuals His rejected and he quit
dnnR picture detrimental the cultural advancement Of the
Neero people" Band leader Tiny bradshaw offered Tia