W9- Part A Wallace Thurman (1902-1934)

W9- Part A Wallace Thurman (1902-1934)

• Wallace Thurman was a native of Salt Lake City, where he decided to move to Southern California to attend University of Southern California, where he started his first novel. He tried to open a magazine but it only survived for a year and a half. Discouraged, he decided to move to New York in 1925, where he became a major figure in the black art, drama, music, and literary movement that established African American arts in many forms. He went to California and earn huge salary as a screenwriter, where he wrote two scripts “Tomorrow’s Children (1934) and High School Girls (1935).
• From the Blacker Berry
• Emma Lou, African American young college freshman, eager to meet many suitable companies, intelligent, broad minded people of all complexions. But she remembers that her Uncle Joe said that Negros were Negros whether they happened to be yellow., brown or black and continuous effort to eliminate the darker element would neither prove or solve anything. Her mom and grandmother said that the whiter Negros marries light Negros to be accepted by white people.
• On registration day, Emma Lou tries so hard to meet or see African American college students like her, unfortunately she met Hazel Mason, African American dark skin that has loud voice, rich and sarcastic. Emma Lou disgust Hazel Mason vulgarity, loud voice, her raucous laughter and her flagrant disregard or ignorance of English grammar seemed inexcusable to Emma Lou and made comment such that “sort of people”.
• Emma Lou was discouraged and depressed that she thought that dark skin people also have the opportunity to be accepted, but she was mistaken and the reality was you have to be accomplished dark skin African American like Verne to be accepted by the sorority and famous. Her Uncle Joe had been wrong-her mother and grandmother had been right. There was no place in the world for a dark girl