Tony Brown Productions (Firm)
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English
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Can blacks fly airplanes and fight? The answer to this odious question would come from the creation of the only all-Black air force ever established by the U.S. military. This program from Tony Brown's Journal reviews this dark period in racial relations and the black community's response to a segregated "separate but equal" policy of the Army Air Corps.
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English
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Musical legend Lionel Hampton was a confidant to the late President George H. W. Bush, a great African-American jazz vibraphonist, a pianist, a percussionist, a bandleader, and a builder of housing for the poor. In this program from Tony Brown's Journal, he discusses his well-rounded career in jazz before a live-studio audience in New York.
104) The Tuskegee Airmen
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English
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This action-filled 90-minute theatrical documentary by Tony Brown Productions, Inc. tells the story of how The Tuskegee Airmen Shot Jim Crow Out of the Skies. A true WWII story starring the real heroes themselves: Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Edward C. Gleed, Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., George “Spanky” Roberts, Lee Archer, Daniel “Chappie” James, Clarence “Lucky” Lester, Hannibal Cox, Wendell O. Pruitt, Charles B. Hall, Herman “Ace” Lawson, and...