• Academy Museum Black Cinema 1898-1971 Exhibition

    Title Wall, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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    Title Wall, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

  • Academy Museum Black Cinema 1898-1971 Exhibition

    Race Films, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
    Image Credit: Joshua White, JW Pictures/ © Academy Museum Foundation/Courtesy

    Race Films, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

  • Academy Museum Black Cinema 1898-1971 Exhibition

    Race Films, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
    Image Credit: Joshua White, JW Pictures/ © Academy Museum Foundation/Courtesy

    Race Films, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

  • Academy Museum Black Cinema 1898-1971 Exhibition

    Race Films, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
    Image Credit: Joshua White, JW Pictures/ © Academy Museum Foundation/Courtesy

    Race Films, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

  • Academy Museum Black Cinema 1898-1971 Exhibition

    Costume worn by Lena Horne in Stormy Weather (1943). Collection of Greg Schreiner. Stars and Icons, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
    Image Credit: Joshua White, JW Pictures/ © Academy Museum Foundation/Courtesy

    Costume worn by Lena Horne in Stormy Weather (1943). Collection of Greg Schreiner. Stars and Icons, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

  • Academy Museum Black Cinema 1898-1971 Exhibition

    Costume worn by Sammy Davis Jr. in Porgy and Bess (1959). Collection of AMMP. Stars and Icons, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
    Image Credit: Joshua White, JW Pictures/ © Academy Museum Foundation/Courtesy

    Costume worn by Sammy Davis Jr. in Porgy and Bess (1959). Collection of AMMP. Stars and Icons, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

  • Academy Museum Black Cinema 1898-1971 Exhibition

    Stars and Icons, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
    Image Credit: Joshua White, JW Pictures/ © Academy Museum Foundation/Courtesy

    Stars and Icons, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

  • Academy Museum Black Cinema 1898-1971 Exhibition

    Music and Film, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
    Image Credit: Joshua White, JW Pictures/ © Academy Museum Foundation/Courtesy

    Music and Film, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

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    Carmen Jones costume design (Carmen, Change #1), Costume design Mary Ann Nyberg, c. 1954.
    Image Credit: Courtesy of the Academy Museum Black Cinema

    Carmen Jones costume design (Carmen, Change #1), Costume design Mary Ann Nyberg, c. 1954.

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    Film still from William Selig's Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898), with Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown.
    Image Credit: Courtesy of the Academy Museum Black Cinema

    Film still from William Selig’s Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898), with Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown.

  • Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones (1933)

    Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones (1933)
    Image Credit: Courtesy of the Academy Museum Black Cinema

    Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones (1933)

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    The Nicholas Brothers in a scene from Stormy Weather (1943), Fayard Nicholas, left, and Harold Nicholas, in Stormy Weather (1950).
    Image Credit: Courtesy of the Academy Museum Black Cinema

    The Nicholas Brothers in a scene from Stormy Weather (1943), Fayard Nicholas, left, and Harold Nicholas, in Stormy Weather (1950).

  • Barbara O. Jones and Bernie Casey, in a scene from Black Chariot 1971

    Image Credit: Courtesy of the Academy Museum Black Cinema

    Barbara O. Jones and Bernie Casey, in a scene from Black Chariot 1971

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