Joseph M. Humbert
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Explore the real people and events as visited in the book.

Real People

Madame Sul-te-wan

Noble Johnson

D. W. Griffith

Oscar Micheaux

Mack Sennett

Charlie Chaplin

Buster Keaton

Silent Movies


The Squaw Man (1914)

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Intolerance (1916)

The Realization of a Negro's Ambition (1916)

The Homesteader  (1919)

The Cameraman (1928)


Real Events

1865 - Lincoln assassinated

1866 - Memphis Riots

1875 - Civil Rights Act ( guaranteed Negroes equal treatment on public transportation)

1883 - The 1875 Civil Rights Act is struck down by Supreme Court

1910 - Johnson - Jeffries Fight

1911 - The Triangle Waistshirt Factory fire

1913 - Oscar Micheaux writes first book

1914 - Cecil de Mille films first feature in Hollywood, The Squaw Man

1914 -  D. W. Griffith starts filming The Birth of a Nation

1915 - The Birth of a Nation is released

1916 - Noble Johnson and the Lincoln Motion Picture Company make their first film, The Realization of a Negro's Ambition

1916 - D. W. Griffith films Intolerance

1919 - Oscar Micheaux makes his first motion picture, The Homesteader
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