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The Odyssey of African American Women in Films: From the Silent Era to the Post-War Years to the 1950s

Vilson, Elvera L.The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2017

… like Zora Neale Hurston, Tessie Souders, Eloise Gist, Madame Touissant and Maria P. Williams who made independent Black films that had complex narratives. Actresses, like Evelyn Preer, Eslanda Cardozo Goode and Alice Burton Russell and African American Hollywood actresses, like Nina Mae …

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