Columbus Jackson
Swing! (1938)
Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer. (more)
Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer. (more)
The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940)
Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight. (more)
Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight. (more)
God's Step Children
(1938)
Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. Hopelessly in love with her adoptive brother Jimmie, Naomi ... (more)
Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. Hopelessly in love with her adoptive brother Jimmie, Naomi ... (more)
Birthright
(1938)
A black Harvard graduate faces racism and discrimination after returning to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to develop a school similar to Tuskegee Institute or Hampton Institute, both historically black colleges. (more)
A black Harvard graduate faces racism and discrimination after returning to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to develop a school similar to Tuskegee Institute or Hampton Institute, both historically black colleges. (more)