AFRO AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Afro American civil rights movement

CINEMA

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Speroni Alice, 3DL

Race

2016

Race is a 2016 biographical sports drama based on the true story of the African-American athlete Jesse Owens, who fought against racism winning a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, under the stern look of Adolf Hitler.

Jesse Owens was the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games.

Directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, the film stars Stephan James as Owens.

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Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics, 1936

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MUSIC

Living for the City, Stevie Wonder

This song by Stevie Wonder, released in 1973, tells the story of a young black man, born in a poor family in Mississipi, who experiences discriminations.Escaped to New York to find a new life, he's injustly accused of a crime because of the color of his skin.

Native Son

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1940

"His father works some days for fourteen hours And you can bet, he barely makes a dollar"

"To find a job is like a haystack needle 'Cause where he lives they don't use colored people"

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LITERATURE

Richard Wright

Richard Wright was an American writer. He is the author of novels of great force, most of which concern racial themes.

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Native Son

Some of his most famous novels:

• The Man Who Was Almost a Man
• Uncle Tom's Children
• Native Son
• The Man Who Lived Underground

1940

Native Son is a 1940 novel by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the painful story of Bigger Thomas,

a 20-year-old black man living in extreme poverty in the South Side ghetto, in Chicago, in the 1930s.

THEATRE

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Native Son

It ran for 114 performances from March 24, 1941 to June 28, 1941 at the St. James Theatre.

Native Son is a 1941 Broadway drama written by Paul Green and Richard Wright based on 1940 Wright's novel Native Son.It was produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman

The main character, Bigger Thomas, was interpreted by the African American actor Canada Lee.

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Canada Lee (Bigger Thomas), Eileen Burns (Miss Emmett) and Evelyn Ellis (Hannah Thomas).

ART

The Door (Admissions Office)

David Hammons’s 1969 piece The Door (Admissions Office) references the struggles associated with desegregating schools during the civil rights movement. In this work, a wooden door is labeled “Admissions Office” on its center and a black ink print of two hands, a face, and a body pressed against it: it represents the body of an excluded African American student.

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