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- Once Upon a Time…When We Were Colored is an intimate reflection on a time and place in African-American history darkened by racism, but also filled with hope for a better future.
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The fact that Cliff enjoys reading great classics and strives to excel in school shows that he does want to make a positive change in himself and in society. He does not make a radical change but instead makes a subtle positive change by choosing to work hard and continue his education.
- $2.9 million
- January 26, 1996 (United States)
- Michael Bennett, Tim Reid
1989. 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 ...
- Clifton L. Taulbert
- 1989
- 1989
- United States
Once Upon a Time…When We Were Colored is an intimate reflection on a time and place in African-American history darkened by racism, but also filled with hope for a better future.
Jan 26, 1996 · 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. It is a memory of the close bonds of family, friends and church that grew up to sustain such communities, in a society where an American version of ...
Jan 1, 1991 · Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored. By Clifton L. Taulbert. This is a story about life in the segregated South through the eyes of a "colored" child. From picking cotton to minstrel shows at the fairground to applying for a white boy's job, Taulbert covers the 1950s through an innocent bird's-eye view. Favorite passages:
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When We Were Colored ★★★ 1995 (PG)Actor Reid makes a fine directorial debut with the story of a black youngster growing up parentless in ‘50s Mississippi. His family faces the usual troubles of the time, including poor wages and white bigotry, but manages to provide a positive and loving home life for him.
Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored. It was a time “when sharecroppers dreamed,” wrote memoirist Clifton Taulbert in his remembrance Once Upon a Time...When Were Colored, and their dreams were of escape from the Jim Crow South, of a better life for their children, of finally getting a real stake in the world they had helped to build ...
