The Truth About Hollywood Cowboys
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Black Characters in Movies
In the sort of naughties, when they started putting black characters into white westerns, it was regarded as the height of light political correctness. Even now, there's a bill picket rodio which turs america right now, and it's full of a whole bunch of black cowboys and cow girls. And speaking of black characters in movies, if we go back to 70, 72, ating wa 72, sidney poirtier and harry bellefonte, two of the biggest black stars at the time, got together to make this movie called booking a preacher. So they using their art to tell a story set in the past, which is a true
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