Analysis Of Walter Thing The Naacp's Hollywood Bureau
"Walter's Thing: The NAACP's Hollywood Bureau of 1946--A Cautionary Tale"
The author primary argument/thesis was the NAACP Hollywood Bureau in 1942 led by Executive director Walter White. During World War II the goal of the organization corresponded with the war aims of the allies. In 2003 the NAACP opened a new Hollywood bureau. Both Bureau’s continuing endeavors to affect film and television and equal opportunity for the minority. Although both organizations share the same common goal, these two agencies had different tactics, and that is because they came from different era. Some evidence about the dissimilarities between the two NAACP’s Bureau was that White’s NAACP was an alien force from the East laying siege to a Hollywood. In 1945 it acted as an “alien” pressure group focused on ranging into peacetime a “new negro” image left from the excess of wartime propaganda ideals that underlined unity, tolerance, and brotherhood. White’s goal was that African American should …show more content…
The author did a thorough research on all the names that he mention to provide his readers a full understanding on how is that specific individual relate to NAACP Hollywood Bureau. For example, James G. Thomson is an African American worker in the cafeteria at the Cessna aircraft in Wichita. He is not well-known like other writers or actors, but this piece of evidence shows that the author did his detailed research. Also he is very specific on all the events and timeline so that readers can relate it to the topic. For example, New deal era as we all know it was the policies of social and economic reform introduced in the United States in the 1930s under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the journal New Deal is more than an economic reform. The author mentions that it is an era that portrayed depression. It is a solution to economic dysfunction but usually for white in which black characters had no
The author primary argument/thesis was the NAACP Hollywood Bureau in 1942 led by Executive director Walter White. During World War II the goal of the organization corresponded with the war aims of the allies. In 2003 the NAACP opened a new Hollywood bureau. Both Bureau’s continuing endeavors to affect film and television and equal opportunity for the minority. Although both organizations share the same common goal, these two agencies had different tactics, and that is because they came from different era. Some evidence about the dissimilarities between the two NAACP’s Bureau was that White’s NAACP was an alien force from the East laying siege to a Hollywood. In 1945 it acted as an “alien” pressure group focused on ranging into peacetime a “new negro” image left from the excess of wartime propaganda ideals that underlined unity, tolerance, and brotherhood. White’s goal was that African American should …show more content…
The author did a thorough research on all the names that he mention to provide his readers a full understanding on how is that specific individual relate to NAACP Hollywood Bureau. For example, James G. Thomson is an African American worker in the cafeteria at the Cessna aircraft in Wichita. He is not well-known like other writers or actors, but this piece of evidence shows that the author did his detailed research. Also he is very specific on all the events and timeline so that readers can relate it to the topic. For example, New deal era as we all know it was the policies of social and economic reform introduced in the United States in the 1930s under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the journal New Deal is more than an economic reform. The author mentions that it is an era that portrayed depression. It is a solution to economic dysfunction but usually for white in which black characters had no