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Van 2021-12-17 08:01:08
History of the Black Civil Rights Movement
The plot and acting skills of the film are lacklustre, but there are a series of conflicts between the profound sense of history.
The first thing to show is ethnic conflict.
Opening: The white man shot the black male protagonist's father with a single shot. Ending: Obama explains the... -
Arturo 2022-03-29 09:01:03
34 years, 8 presidents, chief steward.
Inspired by an article in the Washington Post, the film is based on real events. The protagonist, Eugene Allen, is a black man who entered the White House in 1952 as a food steward. During his 34 years in office, there have been eight U.S. presidents, and Eugene eventually became the White House's...
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Gloria Gaines: Everything you are and everything you have, is because of that butler.
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Cecil Gaines: America has always turned a blind eye to what we done to our own. We look out to the world and judge. We hear about the concentration camps but these camps went on for two hundred years right here in America.
