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Ethel Moses
Ethel Moses (April 29, 1904 – June 1982) was an American stage and film actress, and dancer. She was billed as "the black Jean Harlow". Moses is best known for working in films by Oscar Micheaux. Early life Ethel Moses was born on April 29, 1904, in Staunton, Virginia, the daughter of William Henry Moses and Julia Trent Moses. She raised in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her sisters Lucia and Julia also became performers; their brother Bill taught at Hampton University, Hampton Institute. Their father was a prominent Baptist preacher in New York who disapproved of (but did not prevent) his daughters' stage careers.Laura Visser-Maessen''Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots''(University of North Carolina Press 2016): 11-15. Ethel attended the Nannie Helen Burroughs School in the District of Columbia. Her aunt, Lena Trent Gordon, was a Philadelphia-area political organizer who served on a national committee with Burroughs. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staunton, Virginia
Staunton ( ) is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 25,750. In Virginia, independent cities are separate jurisdictions from the counties that surround them, so the government offices of Augusta County, Virginia, Augusta County are in Verona, Virginia, Verona, which is contiguous to Staunton. Staunton is a principal city of the Staunton-Waynesboro, Virginia, Waynesboro Staunton-Waynesboro, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2010 population of 118,502. Staunton is known for being the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, U.S. president, and as the home of Mary Baldwin University, historically a women's college. The city is also home to Stuart Hall School, Stuart Hall, a private co-ed University preparatory school, preparatory school, as well as the Virginia Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underworld (1937 Film)
''Underworld'' is a 1937 gangster film directed by Oscar Micheaux, about a recent graduate from an all-black college who moves from the American South to Chicago and gets swept into the criminal underworld. The film was adapted from the short story "Chicago After Midnight" by Edna Mae Baker. Among its stars are Ethel Moses, a Micheaux regular, and Oscar Polk, best known for his appearance in ''Gone with the Wind'' two years later. Plot The film opens at an all-black college somewhere in the Southern United States. Paul Bronson, a recent graduate, is convinced by gambler LeRoy Giles to join him in Chicago. There, Paul becomes involved with Dinah Jackson, a singer who is married to club owner Sam Brown but has been having an affair with LeRoy. Paul runs into Evelyn Martin, a beauty parlor owner, who recognizes him from college. The two have lunch together, during which LeRoy spots them and reports to Dinah that Paul is seeing someone else. Dinah arranges for LeRoy to drug and ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 Births
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Gone Harlem
Gone may refer to: Grammar * Gone, the past participle of go (verb) ** Have gone or have been, contrasting verb forms in some contexts Arts, entertainment, and media Film * ''Gone'', a 2002 a thriller written, directed by and starring Tim Chey * ''Gone'', a 2004 film, directed by Paul Zoltan * ''Gone'', a 2006 American short starring Amanda Noret * ''Gone'' (2007 film), a British/Australian thriller * ''Gone'', a 2007 American short starring Barbara Tarbuck * ''Gone'', a 2007 Canadian short starring Cory Monteith * ''Gone'', a 2009 American short starring Rafael Morais * ''Gone'', a 2011 TV movie featuring Molly Parker * ''Gone'' (2012 film), an American thriller starring Amanda Seyfried * ''Gone'' (2021 film), a Nigerian thriller Literature * ''Gone'' (Hayder novel), written by Mo Hayder & winner of the 2012 Edgar Award * ''Gone'' (Kellerman novel), a 2006 Alex Delaware novel by Jonathan Kellerman * ''Gone'' (novel series), a series of young-adult novels by Michael Grant, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press (RUP) is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University. History Rutgers University Press, a nonprofit academic publishing house operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey, under the auspices of Rutgers University, was founded on March 26, 1936. Since then, the press has grown in size and the scope of its publishing program. Among the original areas of specialization were Civil War history and European history. The press’ current areas of specialization include sociology, anthropology, health policy, history of medicine, human rights, urban studies, Jewish studies, American studies, film and media studies, the environment, and books about New Jersey and the mid–Atlantic region. The press consists of a small team of 18 full-time staff members. Publishing partnerships In 2018, Rutgers University Press entered into a partnership with Bucknell University Press. In 2021, Rutgers Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Policy Man
''Policy Man'', is a 1938 American feature film in black and white, and is now a lost film. It was advertised as having an "all colored cast", featuring Ethel Moses, Jimmie Baskett, and Count Bassie. It was directed by Irwin Franklyn, and produced by Irwin Franklyn and Hazel Franklyn.' About ''Policy Man'' was an urban crime film that portrayed sophisticated African Americans in Harlem. It included in its plot a person involved in a numbers game lotteries (or a gambler), and the numbers racket (or illegal gambling). It was a popular film in northern cities in the United States. The cast included Ann Harleman, Henry, Wessels, Ethel Moses, Jimmie Baskett, and Count Bassie. The film features musical groups The Plantation Club Chorus (or N.Y. Plantation Club Chorus), The Al Taylor Orchestra, The Savoy Lindy Hoppers, and The Big Apples. It was one of a series of Creative Films Corporation produced urban crime films, all directed by Irwin Franklyn Irwin Richard Franklyn (1904 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
''Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho'' (also known as ''Hi-De-Ho'') is an American musical short film directed by Fred Waller and released by Paramount Pictures in 1934. The film stars jazz bandleader Cab Calloway and actress Fredi Washington. In 2001, the film was reissued by Kino International in the DVD collection ''Hollywood Rhythm: Vol. 1-The Best Of Jazz And Blues''. Synopsis Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is frequently absent from home. Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Zaz-zuh-zaz" and "The Lady with the Fan" at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Cast * Cab Calloway and his Orchestra * Fredi Washington Notable orchestra members in the film * Edwin Swayzee – trumpeter * Al Morgan – double-bassist * Eddie Barefield Edward Emanuel Barefield (December 12, 1909 – January 4, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and arranger most noteworthy for his work with Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birthright (1924 Film)
''Birthright'' is a 1924 silent film by American director Oscar Micheaux. Produced in 10 reels, it is adapted from Thomas Sigismund Stribling's novel of the same title (1922). The film is now lost. The cast included J. Homer Tutt (as Peter Siner), Evelyn Preer (as Cissie Deldine), Salem Tutt Whitney (as Tump Pack), Lawrence Chenault, and W. B. F. Crowell. The film explores experiences of a young African-American man who returns to a small Tennessee town after getting a college degree. Of mixed-race (called mulatto in the book), he struggles against the systemic racial discrimination of his society around the First World War. Micheaux later rewrote the adaptation, and co-produced and directed a new 35 mm version of ''Birthright (1939 film), Birthright'' as a talkie, in 1938. It had a new cast. He filmed it in New Jersey. Cast * J. Homer Tutt as Peter Siner * Evelyn Preer as Cissie Deldine * Salem Tutt Whitney as Tump Pack * Lawrence Chenault References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Show Boat
''Show Boat'' is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the ''Cotton Blossom'', a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927. Its themes include racial prejudice and tragic, enduring love. The musical contributed such classic songs as "Ol' Man River", " Make Believe", and " Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man". The musical was first produced in 1927 by Florenz Ziegfeld. The premiere of ''Show Boat'' on Broadway was an important event in the history of American musical theatre. It "was a radical departure in musical storytelling, marrying spectacle with seriousness", compared with the trivial and unrealistic operettas, light musical comedies and "Follies"-type musical revues that defined Broadway in the 1890s and early 20th century. According to ''The Complete Book of Light Opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Moses (activist)
Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021) was an American educator and civil rights activist known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and his co-founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. As part of his work with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a coalition of the Mississippi branches of the four major civil rights organizations (SNCC, CORE, NAACP, SCLC), he was the main organizer for the Freedom Summer Project. Born and raised in Harlem, he was a graduate of Hamilton College and later earned a Master's degree in philosophy at Harvard University. He spent the 1960s working in the civil rights and anti-war movements, until he was drafted in 1966 and left the country, spending much of the following decade in Tanzania, teaching and working with the Ministry of Education. After returning to the US, in 1982, Moses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaica, Queens
Jamaica is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is mainly composed of a large commercial and retail area, though part of the neighborhood is also residential. Jamaica is bordered by Hollis to the east; St. Albans, Springfield Gardens, Rochdale Village to the southeast; South Jamaica to the south; Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park to the west; Briarwood to the northwest; and Kew Gardens Hills, Jamaica Hills, and Jamaica Estates to the north. Jamaica, originally a designation for an area greater than the current neighborhood, was settled under Dutch rule in 1656. It was originally called ' before it took its current name. Subsequently, under English rule Jamaica became the center of the "Town of Jamaica". It was the first county seat of Queens County, holding that title from 1683 to 1788, and was also the first incorporated village on Long Island. When Queens was incorporated into the City of Greater New York in 1898, both the Town of Jamaica and the Vil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
