Tell It Like It Was Part 1

Description

This video, through the works of Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., Fenton Johnson, Waring Cuney, and W. E. B. Du Bois, shows the emergence of Black poets in the 1920s and 1930s onto a previously white-dominated literary stage . The program is a production of WCAU-TV (Philadelphia) that was presented by Carousel Films, Inc.; executive produced by Inez Gottlieb; produced by Janet Hirschfeld; directed by Dick D'Anjolell; hosted by Dallie (aka Dallie Mohammed); and narrated by Kevin Brooks.

Collection

Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Series

Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities