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23. Selznick to Sidney Howard, Jan. 6, 1937, in Rudy Behlmer, ed., Memoir from
DavidO. Selznick (New York, 1972), 151; Crisis, 48 (Jan. 1940), 17; Sol Lesser quoted
from Cripps, Making Movies Black, 22.
24. Lola Kovner to Walter White, Nov. 28, 1942 in NAACP Records, Library of
Congress.
25. Cripps, Making Movies Black, 12-11, 89-92.
26. Cripps, Making Movies Black, 104-105; Sidney Buchman to Booker Brown,
in Courier, Oct. 31, 1942 and Sept. 19, 1942; "Rogue's Regiment," Ebony, Sept. 1948,
31-33, cited in Cripps, Making Movies Black, 65, 67.
27. Cripps, Making Movies Black, 163, 167; Padover quoted, 157.
28. Cohn quoted in Truman Gibson to Anatole Litvak, April 14, 1944; Edwin R.
Embree to Philleo Nash, June 29, 1944; Roy Wilkins to Gen. A. D. Surles, Aug. 22,
1945, all cited in Cripps, Making Movies Black, Chap. 4.
29. Walter White to Thurgood Marshall, May 4, 1944, cited in Cripps, Making
Movies Black, Chap. 3.
30. Kenneth M. Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
(New York, 1956, 1964), vii. Such a sentiment speaks not so much to Stampp"s own
enduring convictions but to the ideology of an age in which racial caste dominated
and thus ideals of universalism colored the rhetoric of conscience-liberals.
31. The House I Live In quoted in Cripps, Making Movies Black, 200. As political
rhetoric, Jews often eschewed special pleading for themselves, preferring, for example,
to condemn Nazism for its treatment of "all civilian populations" rather than a "particular
tragedy visited upon Jews." See Lowell Mellett to American Jewish Council,
Feb. 1945, in Making Movies Black, 211.
32. Opportunity, Summer 1948, 100—101; interview between Polonsky and the
author, July 1977; Garfield and Canada Lee, "Our Part in Body and Soul," Opportunity,
Winter 1948, 20-21; on Peck, see Cripps, Making Movies Black, 258, and on "message
movies," Chap. 8.
33. California Eagle, Aug. 18, 1949; George Norford, "The Future in Films,"
Opportunity, Summer 1948, 108-109; Moon to White, Dec. 28, 1948, in NAACP
Records; and on message movies, Cripps, Making Movies Black, Chap. 8.
34. Kempton quoted in Liz Smith's column, Sun (Baltimore), May 5, 1982.
35. Quoted in Cripps, "The Noble Black Savage: A Problem in the Politics of
Television An," Journal of Popular Culture, 8 (Spring 1975), 690.
36. Cosby reported in Los Angeles Sentinel, Oct. 1, 1969; Committee for Use of
Negro Roles, minutes, April 19, 1962, Screen Actors Guild records, Hollywood, CA.
See also Ronald Jacobs to Charles Boren, MPAA records.