Program for Swing: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A program for the movie Swing. The program is two pages front and back. On the front page red text reads "Oscar Micheaux Presents/ Swing! / with an all/ Colored/ Cast/ Starring/ Cora Green/ Hazel Diaz/ Carman Newsome/ Dot Van Engle/ Alec Lovejoy/Consuelo Harris/ Tyler Twins/ Trixie Smith." There is an image in a central oval of two women, one in a bikini, one in a light colored dress, and a man in a suit.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1938
• Distributed by: Micheaux Film and Book Company, American, 1918 - 1940
• Produced by: Oscar Micheaux, American, 1884 - 1951
• Subject of: Cora Green, American, born 1895
• Subject of: Alec Lovejoy, American, 1893 - 1946
• Subject of: Hazel Diaz, American, 1908 - 1997
• Type: programs
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 7 13/16 × 10 in. (19.9 × 25.4 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Independent films
• Topic: Race films
• Topic: Segregation
• Object number: 2013.118.278
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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