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Black and White

History
James A. Ford, an American communist, conceived of the film in March 1932. Ford was working for the Meschrabpom Film Corporation of Workers International Relief and established the Cooperating Committee for Production of a Soviet Film on Negro Life with the intention of developing a film that would highlight racism in America. His project was supported by figures such as Whittaker Chambers, Malcolm Cowley, Wilfred Adolphus Domingo, Waldo Frank, and Rose McClendon. Louise Thompson the film project's secretary and delegated with the task of selecting cast members.

Thompson enlisted a group that included the writers Dorothy West, Loren Miller and Langston Hughes, journalists Henry Lee Moon and Ted Poston, social workers Leonard Hill and Constance White, the artist Mildred Jones, the pharmacist Mollie Lewis, the postal worker Homer Smith Jr., the salesman Alan McKenzie, the agricultural worker Laurence Alberga, the insurance agent Matthew Crawford, the paperhanger Lloyd Patterson, student Frank Montero, singer Juanita Lewis,