(FILM) NORMAN FILMS Black Gold Action Love Thrills With an A

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(FILM.) NORMAN FILMS. "Black Gold. Action Love Thrills. With an All Colored Cast. Lawrence Criner and Katherine Boyd." Color poster, 21 x 40 inches, some restoration backed with archival paper. Jacksonville, FL: Norman Films, 1928

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an historically important film.'Black Gold' was of course oil. In Oklahoma, land owned by African American farmers trying to eke out a living under harsh circumstances turned out to be golden indeed. A number of small and well off black townships emerged led by oil-rich black millionaires. In Tulsa, the Greenwood district, or 'Black Wall Street,' as it was called so galled working class and poor whites, that when a racial incident took place in 1921, white rioters, including some from out of state, literally leveled the entire area, hanging blacks from bridges and lamp-posts. Well documented in "Events of the Tulsa Disaster,' a first-hand account by Mary Jones Parrish (reprinted 1998).