All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:


Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (book) by Jill Watts


Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel (book) by Carlton Jackson


Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era (book) by Ellen Scott


Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from WWII to the Civil Rights Era (book) by Thomas Cripps


Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era (book) by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff


Beulah and the Moynihan Report (article) by Gerald R. Butters


From Blackface to Beulah: Subtle Subversion in Early Black Sitcoms (article) by Mack Scott


Race, Class, and Gender in Beulah and Bernie Mac (article) by Angela Nelson


Star Dances: African-American Constructions of Stardom, 1925-1960 (book chapter) by Arthur Knight


Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films (books) by Donald Bogle


Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):


Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)


Bummin on Tremolo by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License


Love Her by Loyalty Freak Music (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License


Comic Plodding by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License


Nostalgic Piano by Rafael Krux (freepd.com) — Public Domain


Remember the Time We Used to Play by Kumiko (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License


Ave Marimba by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License


The Boats We've Been On by smallertide (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License


Danse Morialta by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License


Porch Blues by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License


Pepper's Theme (full mix) by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License


Steps by Sunne (marmosetmusic.com)


Media Cited:


Clips from various Academy Award speeches (youtube.com)


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