Poster for the 1937 film Harlem on the Prairie which was billed as the first “all-colored” western comedy musical. It starred Herb Jeffries, Spencer Williams, and Mantan Moreland. The film is a contrast to the inaccurate but popular Hollywood images of an all-white American frontier.
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