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Jun 17, 2024 · For the reader unfamiliar with Strode, I’ll simply note that he was a UCLA football legend, a track and field legend, one of the two men who broke the NFL’s color barrier, a CFL legend, a wrestling legend, a Hall of Fame stuntman, and “the Jackie Robinson of cinema.” Oh, and he married a princess!
1 day ago · Set in the 1880s, it tells the story of an African-American cavalryman (played by Woody Strode) who is wrongfully accused of raping and murdering a white girl. It was erroneously marketed as a suspense film by Warners and was not a commercial success.
Jun 18, 2024 · Starting as an actor in 1941, Strode opened the door for many of today’s Black actors and entertainers by starting in Hollywood that he had to tolerate racism from many in the industry.
21 hours ago · Professional sports teams are athletic organizations comprising talented, expert players hired by club owners whose revenues originally derived from admission fees charged to spectators seeing games in enclosed ballparks or indoor arenas. Teams are usually members of a league that schedules a championship season, although independent teams also ...
Jun 18, 2024 · Football’s Glory Road: The 39 of ’39. Jim Crow was no stranger to the college gridiron in 1939, nor was he compelled to confine his ugly reach to the South. The result was that nearly every college football roster was to a man either entirely white or entirely Black. New York Amsterdam News, November 9, 1939.
Jun 10, 2024 · Synopsis: Shortly after a harmonica-playing stranger (Charles Bronson) rides into in a western town seeking a man in black (Henry Fonda) who has just slaughtered a farming patriarch (Frank Wolff) and his children, Wolff’s newly widowed wife (Claudia Cardinale) arrives and is told that a man named Cheyenne (Jason Robards) was responsible for ...
4 days ago · From the iconic Clint Eastwood, whose name is practically synonymous with the genre, to the rebellious allure of Steve McQueen, these actors brought an authenticity and presence that defined their cowboy characters.
