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We've Come a Long, Long Way, the 1943 "Negro Marches On" black African American documentary ("At last the perfect motion picture the Negro has waited for"; "The amazing human document, a cavalcade of a race"; "With the greatest array of celebrities ever assembled in one motion picture, ably supported by thousands recruited from AMERICA'S thirteen million") narrated by Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux. Note that this poster was "A Negro Marches On Production". This movie combined old newsreel material and new World War II-era footage with narration by Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux (one of the foremost black religious leaders of the era, and later a pioneer of religious television). It is especially notable in that it is almost certainly the only "all black" feature movie to receive an Academy Award nomination! Even more interesting, the movie was removed from the competition for the Oscar because the producer attempted to sue the U.S. Army because shortly after the Army made Frank Capra's "The Negro Soldier", which the producer believed infringed on his intellectual property rights! I don't know the outcome of the case, but I have never heard of anyone successfully suing the Army, especially during a war! The movie traced the progress of African Americans from the outbreak of the Civil War through to the then present day (during World War II). The movie was inspirational, but it made it abundantly clear throughout that the average black American still had a "long, long way" to go before overcoming white prejudice and bigotry. Here is a review of the movie from the book "African American Films Through 1959" by Larry Richards: The picture opens with a funeral eulogy of a young black officer killed in action which is used to depict pictorially the opportunties and achievements of the race in peace and war. The film also warns the black man of the dangers of Nazi or Japanese domination. Blacks are shown working on the farm and in Harlem, at work in schools, colleges, in laboratories, factories, in the armed services and in varied enterainment fields. Included are shots of Dr. George Washington Carver. Joe Louis, Paul Robeson, Lena Horne, and Bill Robinson.

A collector of black African American movie posters has e-mailed us the following review of the movie from the book "African American Films Through 1959" by Larry Richards: "The picture opens with a funeral eulogy of a young black Officer killed in action which is used to depict pictorially the opportunties and achievements of the race in peace and war. The film also warns the black man of the dangers of Nazi or Japanese domination. Blacks are shown working on the farm and in Harlem, at work in schools, colleges, in laboratories, factories, in the armed services and in varied entertainment fields. Included are shots of Dr. George Washington Carver. Joe Louis, Paul Robeson, Lena Horne, and Bill Robinson."
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