Midnight ramble
For other uses, see Midnight ramble (disambiguation).
A midnight ramble was a segregation-era midnight showing of films for an African American audience, often in a cinema where, under Jim Crow laws they would never have been admitted at other times.[1][2] The films shown were often from among the over 500 films that were made between 1910 and 1950 in the United States with Black producers, writers, actors and directors.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Bowser, Pearl; Cram, Bestor (dirs.) (1994). Midnight Ramble: The Story of the Black Film Industry (DVD. 2009). The American Experience. PBS.
- ↑ "Film Notes for "Midnight Rambles". Cincinnati World Cinema. 2007.
- ↑ Thomas, Pamela (2011). "Black Folks Make Movies".
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