BGuthrie Photos: DC -- NMAAHC -- Exhibit: (L4) Taking the Stage

DC -- NMAAHC -- Exhibit: (L4) Taking the Stage:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. AASTAG_161012_001.JPG: Taking the Stage
2. AASTAG_161012_005.JPG: Film
3. AASTAG_161012_013.JPG: NAACP Image Award, 1973
4. AASTAG_161012_018.JPG: TV
5. AASTAG_161012_021.JPG: New Medium, Old Models
6. AASTAG_161012_023.JPG: Blackvoice Radio
7. AASTAG_161012_027.JPG: The Beulah Show
8. AASTAG_161012_029.JPG: Protesting Stereotypes
9. AASTAG_161012_031.JPG: Changing the Channels
10. AASTAG_161012_036.JPG: Bill Cosby: While many comedians mined laughter by probing racial and political differences, Bill Cosby (b. 1937) built his groundbreaking career around universal themes of family and childhood. His award-winning comedy albums included "I Started Out as a Child" (1964) and "To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With" (1968) and featured rollicking tales about growing up in inner-city Philadelphia. These stand-up routines became the inspiration or the animated children's series "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" (CBS, 1972-84). In recent years, revelations about alleged sexual misconduct have cast a shadow over Cosby's entertainment career and severely damaged his reputation.
11. AASTAG_161012_038.JPG: Winos never get afraid of nothing but running out of wine. That's the only thing that panic the wino. Wino could deal with Dracula. "Hey, man! Say, nigger, you with the cape!... Why don't you get your teeth fixed, nigger?" -- Richard Pryor
12. AASTAG_161012_041.JPG: Richard Pryor, That Nigger's Crazy, 1974: During the 1970s, Pryor sparked controversy for his frequent use of the word "nigger" in his comedy routines. In 1980, Pryor told Ebony magazine that a trip to Kenya had convinced him to stop using the word: "There are no 'niggers' in Africa, and there are no 'niggers' here in America either."
13. AASTAG_161012_043.JPG: Richard Pryor
14. AASTAG_161012_047.JPG: Godfrey Cambridge
15. AASTAG_161012_052.JPG: Dick Gregory
16. AASTAG_161012_058.JPG: Moms Mabley
17. AASTAG_161012_063.JPG: Redd Foxx
18. AASTAG_161012_065.JPG: Making Records, Breaking Barriers
19. AASTAG_161012_067.JPG: From Circuit to Screen: Stu Gilliam
20. AASTAG_161012_071.JPG: Trophy, 1954: After Stu Gilliam was drafted he performed his ventriloquist act to entertain his fellow troops. He won this trophy in the first All-Army Talent Contest. Gilliam later recalled that "being in the army was as close to being in jail as I ever wanted to be."
21. AASTAG_161012_076.JPG: Ventriloquist Figure, late 1950s: Stu Gilliam performed with his puppet alter ego, Oscar Land, until the early 1960s, when he switched to stand-up comedy. This dummy was custom-made for Gilliam by Frank Marshall, who also made Edgar Bergen's famous figure Charlie McCarthy. Gilliam designed many of Oscar's outfits himself and later ran a clothing store in Hollywood.
22. AASTAG_161012_078.JPG: Stand-Up Comedy
23. AASTAG_161012_080.JPG: Film
24. AASTAG_161012_085.JPG: Jim Crow at the Movies
25. AASTAG_161012_088.JPG: Program, The Birth of a Nation, 1915: Souvenir programs heralded the opening of Griffith's film as a historic event. When the film was screened at the White House, President Woodrow Wilson allegedly remarked: "It is like writing history with lightning. My only regret is that it is all so terribly true."
26. AASTAG_161012_095.JPG: The Birth of a Nation
27. AASTAG_161012_098.JPG: Black America Responds
28. AASTAG_161012_101.JPG: Servant Roles
29. AASTAG_161012_104.JPG: Segregated Theaters
30. AASTAG_161012_107.JPG: Segregated Theater Ticket, ca 1950: This ticket admitted a patron to the "Colored Balcony" at the Vernon Theatre in Leesville, Louisiana.
31. AASTAG_161012_116.JPG: Segregated Theater Flyer, 1954:: The Sumter Drive-In Theatre in Bevilles Corner, Florida, issues this promotional flyer marked for delivery to "White Families."
32. AASTAG_161012_122.JPG: Segregated Theater Flyer, 1950: The famous Theatre in Winter Park, Florida, was owned by Richard E. Norman, a white producer of "race films" for black audiences.
33. AASTAG_161012_125.JPG: Black Hollywood
34. AASTAG_161012_128.JPG: Paul Robeson's Script from Jericho
35. AASTAG_161012_132.JPG: Black and White 1940s-1960s
36. AASTAG_161012_138.JPG: Lena Horne's Dress from Stormy Weather, 1943
37. AASTAG_161012_145.JPG: Black-Cast Musicals
38. AASTAG_161012_149.JPG: Sidney Poitier
39. AASTAG_161012_153.JPG: Melvin Van Peebles costume
40. AASTAG_161012_156.JPG: Black Power, Black Movies The 1970s
41. AASTAG_161012_158.JPG: Max Jullen's Fur Coat from The Mack, 1973
42. AASTAG_161012_162.JPG: Saddle Owned by Ernie Robinson, co-founder of the Black Stuntmen's Association.
43. AASTAG_161012_167.JPG: Blaxploitation
44. AASTAG_161012_170.JPG: United Stuntwoman's Association Jacket
45. AASTAG_161012_173.JPG: Black Stuntmen
46. AASTAG_161012_174.JPG: Makeup Case: Owned by Bernadine Anderson, the first black makeup artist to gain membership in the Hollywood labor union.
47. AASTAG_161012_179.JPG: Oprah WInfrey's costume from The Color Purpose, 1985
48. AASTAG_161012_186.JPG: Contemporary Roles 1980s-2010s
49. AASTAG_161012_188.JPG: Star Power
50. AASTAG_161012_190.JPG: Eddie Murphy's Jacket from Beverly Hills Cop II, 1987
51. AASTAG_161012_196.JPG: Russell Williams' tape recorder
52. AASTAG_161012_200.JPG: Dress from 12 Years a Slave, 2013
53. AASTAG_161012_204.JPG: Halle Barry's Costume from Monster's Ball, 2001
54. AASTAG_161012_208.JPG: Ruth E. Cartier's costume designs for Malcolm X, 1992
55. AASTAG_161012_212.JPG: Russell Williams's Oscars
56. AASTAG_161012_216.JPG: Denzel Washington's costume from The Hurricane, 1999
57. AASTAG_161012_223.JPG: Independent Visions
58. AASTAG_161012_226.JPG: Josephine Baker, ca 1930
59. AASTAG_161012_227.JPG: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
60. AASTAG_161012_230.JPG: Theatrical Dance
61. AASTAG_161012_233.JPG: Dance Theatre of Harlem
62. AASTAG_161012_236.JPG: Costumes from for colored girls, ca 1976
63. AASTAG_161012_240.JPG: Musical Comedy and Vaudeville
64. AASTAG_161012_245.JPG: Bert Williams
65. AASTAG_161012_251.JPG: Toy, Ham and Sam, the Minstrel Team, 1925
66. AASTAG_161012_254.JPG: "Negro Black" Greasepaint, ca 1930
67. AASTAG_161012_258.JPG: Minstrel Shows
68. AASTAG_161012_259.JPG: "The Original Jim Crow," ca 1830: Minstrel show characters reflected and reinforced racist stereotypes of African Americans. Jim Crow, a happy-go-lucky plantation slave, was created by white performer Thomas D. "Daddy" Rice. It became a nickname for segregation laws instituted in the South after the Civil War.
69. AASTAG_161012_262.JPG: Breaking Away from Blackface
70. AASTAG_161012_264.JPG: Program, Othello, Shubert Theatre, New York, 1943-44
71. AASTAG_161012_268.JPG: Paul Robeson
72. AASTAG_161012_270.JPG: A Raisin in the Sun
73. AASTAG_161012_275.JPG: Broadening Broadway
74. AASTAG_161012_277.JPG: Playbill, Ira Aldridge, at Theater Royal, 1857
75. AASTAG_161012_283.JPG: Ira Aldridge
76. AASTAG_161012_285.JPG: Ira Aldridge as Othello, ca 1830
77. AASTAG_161012_286.JPG: Political Roles
78. AASTAG_161012_290.JPG: Costumes from The Wiz
79. AASTAG_161012_295.JPG: The Wiz
80. AASTAG_161012_307.JPG: Theater
81. AASTAG_161012_309.JPG: TV Pioneers
82. AASTAG_161012_315.JPG: Bill Cosby
83. AASTAG_161012_319.JPG: Diahann Carroll's Jumpsuit, Julia, ca 1970
84. AASTAG_161012_322.JPG: Julia
85. AASTAG_161012_326.JPG: Julia paper doll set, ca 1970
86. AASTAG_161012_331.JPG: The Flip Wilson Show
87. AASTAG_161012_335.JPG: Flip Wilson's "Geraldine" Costume, 1972
88. AASTAG_161012_342.JPG: Good Times
89. AASTAG_161012_346.JPG: Esther Rolle's Dress, Good Times, 1974
90. AASTAG_161012_352.JPG: Jimmie Walker's Hat, Good Times, 1974-79
91. AASTAG_161012_358.JPG: Sherman Hemsley's Suit, The Jeffersons, 1975-77 Isabel Sanford's Dress, The Jeffersons, 1979
92. AASTAG_161012_361.JPG: The Jeffersons
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Description of Subject Matter: Taking the Stage
September 24, 2016 – Indefinitely
This exhibition explores the history of African Americans in theater, film, and television in order to celebrate their creative achievements, demonstrate their cultural impact and illuminate their struggles for equal representation on the stage of American entertainment. Visitors will see how African Americans transformed the ways they are represented onstage by challenging racial discrimination and stereotypes and striving to produce more positive, authentic and diverse images of African American identity and experience. Together these stories suggest how African American performing artists also paved the way for broader social change. Stories include Paul Robeson’s role in Othello, Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf and the Black Stuntmen’s Association in Hollywood.
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