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    Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored

    PG1996 · Drama · 1h 52m
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  3. Jan 26, 1996 · Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored: Directed by Tim Reid. With Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Leon, Paula Kelly. A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.

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    • Drama, Romance
    • Tim Reid
    • 1996-01-26
  4. Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored is a 1996 American period drama film directed by Tim Reid and starring Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashad and Leon. The screenplay was written by Paul W. Cooper. The film is based on Clifton Taulbert’s real life and his non-fiction book Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored.

  5. Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored is a memoir by Clifton Taulbert, first published in 1989. Taulbert writes about his life experiences from his childhood in a small Mississippi town during the segregated 1950s to his emigration North in 1962 at the age of 17. The book won Taulbert a Pulitzer Prize nomination and was later made into a 1996 ...

    • Clifton L. Taulbert
    • 1989
  6. Jan 26, 1996 · Once Upon A Time . . . When We Were Colored. Roger Ebert January 26, 1996. Tweet. Tim Reid 's "Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored" re-creates the world of a black community in the rural South in the years from 1946 to 1962, as hardline segregation gradually fell to the assault of the civil rights movement.

  7. It's 1946 in Mississippi, and young Cliff (Charles Earl Taylor Jr.), living under the care of great-grandfather Poppa (Al Freeman Jr.) and great-grandmother Ma Pearl (Paula Kelly), is starting to...

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    • Tim Reid
    • PG
    • Al Freeman Jr.
  8. Brief Synopsis. Welcome to Glen Allan, Mississippi, 1946. Experience an America that remains only in the hearts and minds of those who were brought up in this small southern community. Lost in the sweat of the cotton fields and hidden in the juke joints of muddy water blues, the people of Glen Allan nurtured and pr.

  9. Jan 1, 1991 · Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored: Tie In Edition. Clifton L. Taulbert. 3.93. 295 ratings33 reviews. "A bittersweet story about love, community, and family—and the difference they made in the life of one young man."— The New York Times Book Review . Genres Memoir History Nonfiction Biography Autobiography African American Race. ...more.

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