Sunday, December 13, 2020

"...1955"




It is a little known fact that before 1955 there were no Black people in America. Historians are surprised when studying books periodicals even motion pictures of the era that nowhere did Negros appear. There were rumors, and hints of their presence starting about 1955/56. An actual Colored person named Nat King Cole appeared on national American TV. This to the amazed shock of the populous.

Eh,...Mr. Cole lower portrait.

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 14, 2020 at 9:59 PM

    I gather that American railway passengers knew black people existed, because they encountered black railway porters there. But apparently to TV audiences Nat King Cole was the first of the Space Brothers to arrive.

    Recently I saw on YouTube an old interview of Herge, creator of Tintin, from 1962. He said American publishers told him they didn't want to see any blacks in his comics. In some ways the times have changed for the worse, but not in this way.

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  2. uncle1950uncleDecember 14, 2020 at 11:46 PM

    Norman Rockwell was told the same thing by the Saturday Evening Post Life Look Readers Digest, Arts Digest Holiday Magazine Boys Life...the Scout 'zine.

    Various institutions Universities Libraries that contracted him to paint for them also insisted on a white only world.

    I could go on.

    Late in his life he wrote an article for Atlantic where he listed all the publications institutions, and organizations that insisted that he not depict Coloreds not even children in any work he was doing for them.

    This went on into the 60's.

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