Black Filmmaking in the 1920s: The Colored Players Film Corporation’s “The Scar of Shame”
By the year 1920, approximately 300,000 Black folks migrated to the North (Isabel Wilkerson talks about their experiences at length in her book The Warmth of Other Suns). Many sought to escape racial terrorism, and the negative impact of natural disasters on farming in the South while others like the veterans of World War I […]