Subject Topic: African American actors - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Boxer Joe Louis is seated at the restaurant table, 3rd from the left. The woman to his left is Muriel Andrade. Dick Abrams, wearing glasses, is seated on the right. The other individuals in the photo are unidentified.
Date:: [1940?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1946?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: 1940s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: Ruby Dee was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. Her career in acting crossed all major forms of media over a span of eight decades, including the film, A Raisin in the Sun, in which she recreated her stage role as a suffering housewife in the projects. [Wikipedia]
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: James B. Lowe’s acting career included three Hollywood productions during the 1920’s, including The Demon Rider (1925) and Blue Blazes (1926). He is best known for the lead role in Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1927), directed by Harry Pollard. Other than Paul Robeson, Lowe was the only African American actor to play the lead in a Hollywood film with white actors in the lesser roles. As portrayed by Lowe, Uncle Tom is doggedly devoted to Little Eva, his white master’s daughter, and thus is a conventional character, but Lowe’s own charisma added a new dimension to the role. Lowe was active in the African American community, staring in stage productions and headlining social functions and events.
Date:: [circa 1922]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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