
Black cowboys on screen
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What's Known About the Wild West?
There was an official policy of not having black people in rules of power and authority as heroes in films. This then affects the production of hollyd movies from the firster sixties, which is why you see a lack of positive black representation. And when it comes to cowboys, now, of course, the original cowboys ow there were a lot of black cowboys out there doing the things we see white coboies doing. But when it came to the movies, now all you saw was white people doing all these amazing, interesting things.
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