In the early decades of the twentieth century, Hollywood created its depictions of African Americans. Many of the images, which first appeared in Hollywood films and then on television, were derived from “Dixie,” a term used to reference the antebellum American South, during a time when African Americans were enslaved. This article examines the account, given by the African American Press, of the ongoing dispute over black imagery between Hollywood and the NAACP. The heightened voice of the African American Press ultimately helped to push for the infusing of black presence in popular culture with the goal of depicting the possibilities of an integrated American society. The NAACP and the African American Press emerged as the leading voices in challenging Hollywood’s black caricature culture, after recognizing that harmful black representation was injurious to the burgeoning civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century.

在20世纪初期，好莱坞创作了对非裔美国人的描绘。许多图像最初出现在好莱坞电影中，然后出现在电视中，这些图像来源于“ Dixie”，该术语用于指称非洲裔美国人被奴役的时期的南美洲战前时期。本文研究了非裔美国人出版社对好莱坞与NAACP之间关于黑色图像的持续争议的描述。非裔美国人新闻社的强烈呼声最终有助于推动黑人渗透到大众文化中，以描绘一个一体化的美国社会的可能性。NAACP和非裔美国人新闻社成为挑战好莱坞黑人漫画文化的主要声音，