Watch Note the differences in how people of color are portrayed in the various films and how that diverges from film to film and the reality of their lived experiences.

Watch: Note the differences in how people of color are portrayed in the various films and how that diverges from film to film and the reality of their lived experiences.
Read: Assimilation Narrative, KCET website link on the forgotten Black Women
Actors in Early American Cinema, Mini Bio: Hattie McDaniel, Paul Robeson bio
http://www.cpsr.cs.uchicago.edu/robeson/bio.html

https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/forgotten-black-women-of-early-hollywood-take-center-stage-at-caam