Walter Long (actor)
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Walter Huntley Long was an American stage and film character actor who between 1909 and the late 1940s performed in nearly 200 screen productions. He appeared in blackface in The Birth of a Nation, a
Long in 1924
Hooded Klansmen catch "Gus", portrayed in blackface by Long, in The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Long (sixth from left) with other cast members of the crime drama film Kick In (1922)
Long and Carol Dempster in the Western drama Scarlet Days (1919)
Blackface
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Blackface is the practice of performers of any race or ethnicity, usually white people, using burned cork, shoe polish, or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people, e.g. African Ameri
Walter Long (actor)
…4, 1952) was an American stage and film character actor who between 1909 and the late 1940s performed in nearly 200 screen productions. He appeared in blackface in The Birth of a Nation, a film depicting black characters, such as the one portrayed by Long, as savage sexual predators and the Ku Klux Klan as…
This reproduction of a 1900 William H. West minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Lithographing Company, shows the transformation from a person of European descent to a caricature of a dark-skinned person of African descent.
FLIT advertisement by Dr. Seuss depicting blackface-styled caricatures of Black people
The white American actor John McCullough as Othello, 1878
Carrie Swain in blackface as Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin.