(African American film) WE’VE COME A LONG, LONG WAY [1944] Jumbo window card poster

We’ve Come a Long, Long Way. [New York?]: Negro Marches On Corporation, [1944]. Vintage original 28 x 22″ (71 x 56 cm) jumbo window card poster. Mounted on archival paper, there has been conservation affecting the extreme bottom left and part of the address stenciled into top right blank margin. With bright colors, overall very good+.

We’ve Come a Long, Long Way, a documentary released during WWII, is an early cinematic expression of Black pride. It opens “with a funeral eulogy of a young Black officer killed in action which is used to depict pictorially the opportunities and achievements of the race in peace and war. The film also warns the Black man of the dangers of Nazi and Japanese domination. Blacks are shown working on the farm and in Harlem, working at schools, colleges, in laboratories, factories, in the armed services and in varied entertainment fields. Included are shots of Dr. George Washington Carver, Joe Louis, Paul Robeson, Lena Horne and Bill Robinson.” (Richards, African American Films through 1959, p. 1253)