I Am Not Your Negro
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3 Medgar Evers (Private Collection/Bridgeman Images)
4 Three young men protesting desegregation (AP Images)
5 Dorothy Counts (The Charlotte Observer)
6 Joan Crawford in Dance, Fools, Dance, 1931 (MGM)
7 Clinton Rosemond in They Won’t Forget, 1937 (Warner Bros.)
8 John Wayne in Stagecoach, 1939 (United Artists)
9 James Baldwin at his typewriter in Istanbul, 1964 (© sedatpakay.com)
10 Demonstrators and police in Selma (© Spider Martin)
11 Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X shaking hands (Bettmann/Bettmann/Getty Images)
12 Lorraine Hansberry (Afro Newspaper/Gado/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
13 Jackson Daily News, June 12, 1963
14 Fredi Washington in Imitation of Life, 1934 (Universal Pictures)
15 Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Group at Mr. Foller’s farm, by James F. Gibson, 1862. (Library of Congress)
16 Richard Widmark in No Way Out, 1950 (20th Century Fox)
17 Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones, 1958 (United Artists)
18 Still from Chiquita banana advertisement (© Streamline Films, Inc.)
19 Sidney Poitier in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 1967 (Columbia Pictures)
20 Sidney Poitier smiling (at Rod Steiger) in In the Heat of the Night, 1967 (United Artists)
21 Rod Steiger smiling (at Sidney Poitier) in In the Heat of the Night, 1967 (United Artists)
22 From The Secret of Selling the Negro (Courtesy of Johnson Publishing Company, LLC. All rights reserved.)
23 From The Secret of Selling the Negro (Courtesy of Johnson Publishing Company, LLC. All rights reserved.)
24 James Baldwin at Cambridge University debate with William F. Buckley, 1965 (The Cambridge Union Society/BBC/Getty Images)
25 John Wayne in The Searchers, 1956 (John Springer Collection/Corbis Historical/Getty Images)
26 Family in front of house, Kodak, 1958
27 Black Panther raid, August 30, 1970, D. Ligato, photographer (Philadelphia Evening Bulletin/Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA)
28 Coretta Scott King and her family at coffin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (© Costa Manos/Magnum Photos)
29 Woman crying at memorial for Martin Luther King, Jr. (© Bob Adelman)
30 Mug shot of Ben McDaniel (National Archives)
31 Mug shot of Preston James (National Archives)
32 Rodney King beating March 3, 1991
33 Doris Day in Lullaby of Broadway, 1951 (Warner Bros.)
34 Ray Charles, “What’d I Say”
35 Doris Day in Lover Come Back, 1961 (Universal Pictures)
36 The lynching of Laura Nelson, May 25, 1911, Okemah, Oklahoma (Oklahoma Historical Society)
37 James Baldwin in The Negro and the American Promise, 2004 (WGBH)
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