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Canada Lee

Nacimiento : 1907-03-03, Manhattan, New York, US

Muerte : 1952-05-09

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Canada Lee (born Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata; March 3, 1907 – May 9, 1952) was an American professional boxer and then an actor who pioneered roles for African Americans. After careers as a jockey, boxer and musician, he became an actor in the Federal Theatre Project, including the 1936 production of Macbeth adapted and directed by Orson Welles. A champion of civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s, Lee was blacklisted and died shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He advanced the African American tradition in theatre pioneered by such actors as Paul Robeson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Canada Lee , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Stephen Kumalo (archive footage)

A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.

Cry, the Beloved Country

Stephen Kumalo

In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.

El color de la sangre

Lt. 'Dixie' Thompson

Un médico (Mel Ferrer), su esposa (Beatrice Pearson) y sus hijos, todos ellos técnicamente de raza negra, se hacen pasar por blancos en una ciudad de Nueva Inglaterra.

Cuerpo y alma

Ben Chaplin

Charlie Davis es un chico de familia humilde que aspira a conseguir la fama en el mundo del boxeo. Aunque su madre y su novia desaprueban su decisión, Charlie se asocia con Robert, un promotor de combates de boxeo, y va perdiendo los escrúpulos poco a poco, llegando a dejarse vencer en un combate amañado.

Náufragos

Joe

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ocho supervivientes de un barco que ha sido torpedeado comparten un bote salvavidas. También recogerán a un nazi que está a punto de ahogarse, lo que provocará diversas tensiones entre los tripulantes.

Henry Browne, Farmer

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Documentary short film dramatizing the efforts of a black farmer and his family to help the American war effort by increasing production.

Keep Punching

Speedy Joe Williams (Henry's Trainer)

Henry Jackson, known as Little Dynamite, is a Golden Gloves champion, who agrees to turn professional when approached by fight manager Ed Watson, despite the opposition raised by his father and Fanny Singleton, his sweetheart.