/tmp/qyanm.jpg Fantastic Mr. Trotter: “I am one of the People” – Hidden History of Hollywood

“Only the colored people themselves can determine their political, social and economic future.”

William Monroe Trotter

Prof. EA Kiss

This course surveys a hidden canon of African American film while also uncovers the roots of representational injustice in Hollywood and the secret, but cardinal role Woodrow Wilson played in the production and distribution of Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” that led to the rebirth of the KKK. Wilson’s policy of segregation was adapted by Hollywood as a self-censoring industry regulation of representation. Black people could only appear on screen as subservient and marginal characters, never as equals, partners or leaders. This industry code, Wilson’s legacy, has become second nature to Hollywood.

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Fantastic Mr. Trotter: “I am one of the People”

Dramatization of the minutes recorded in the White House meeting between Trotter and Wilson

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson

(2010)

Ragtime

Milos Forman

(1981)

Standing Firm: William Monroe Trotter’s Meetings With Woodrow Wilson

Christine A. Lunardini

(1913-1914)