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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
When We Were Colored. 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.
- $2.9 million
- January 26, 1996 (United States)
- Michael Bennett, Tim Reid
Published. 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 ...
- Clifton L. Taulbert
- 1989
- 1989
- United States
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Jan 26, 1996 · 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. 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 apartheid was ...
When We Were Colored. 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 ...
- (14)
- Tim Reid
- PG
- Al Freeman Jr.
1h 55m. 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...
Summaries. A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation. This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is ...
