Anita Bush
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Anita Bush was an African American stage actress and playwright. She founded the Anita Bush All-Colored Dramatic Stock Company in 1915, a pioneering black repertory theatre company that helped gain he
Performing in The Crimson Skull.
Anita Bush, c. 1937
Anita Bush at home, c. 1970
Poster for The Crimson Skull (1921) with Lawrence Chenault and Anita Bush
The Bull-Dogger
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The Bull-Dogger is a 1922 American five-reel silent Western film starring Bill Pickett, an African American and Native American who is credited with inventing bulldogging, also called steer wrestling.
Anita Bush
…race films”—films with positive, family-friendly storylines starring African American characters in positive, non-stereotypical roles. Bush appeared in The Bull-Dogger (1921), starring renowned Black rodeo cowboy Bill Pickett and starred in The Crimson Skull (1922) with vaudeville performer Lawrence Chenault, also…
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