Tales of the Unknown South (1987) | ETV Classics

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• Julia Peterkin (1880 –1961) was an American author from South Carolina, who advocated for African Americans and wrote about the portrayals of the southern life. In 1929 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry. As a white author, she developed a unique perspective on the African American lifestyle during her time. She was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African American experience. She collaborated with photographer Doris Ulmann on Roll, Jordan, Roll.
• Diane Oliver - The Short Stories and Too-Short Life of Diane Oliver.
• DuBose Heyward (1885-1940), was an American novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his novel Porgy, that inspired the play, folk opera, and film, Porgy and Bess.
• Benjamin Bernard Dunlap - Dunlap’s many publications include poems, essays, anthologies, guides, and opera libretti as well as two novels in manuscript, Famous Dogs of the Civil War and Sunshine: The Autobiography of a Genius. As a writer-producer and on-camera talent for public television, he has been a major contributor to more than 200 programs, for which he has won numerous national and international awards.
• Sandra Mills Scott Actress, is known for The Cookout (2004), Law & Order (1990) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).
• Francis Foster Actress (née Brown; 1924 – 1997) was an American film, television and stage actress. In addition to being an actress, Foster was also an award–winning stage director and an original member of the Negro Ensemble Company. Moreover, in 1955, she became the first African American to appear in a nationally broadcast television commercial.
• Mel Winkler Actor (1941 - 2020) is a voice actor known for voicing Aku Aku, Lucius Fox, and Johnny Snowman.
• David Guider Actor - Tales of the Unknown South Trilogy of films about race and culture in the Deep South from the end of World War I to the civil-rights protests of the 1960s. All three stories deal with fear and isolation, and with the role of faith in the lives of those who venture alone into what is unknown around them.
• John Malloy was born on May 13, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Raw Deal (1986), Hoffa (1992) and Cannery Row (1982). He was married to Faye H. Dillinger. He died on May 31, 2015 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
• Richard Leighton was born on January 27, 1945 in Lakeland, Florida, USA. He is an actor, known for Paste (2012), The Darkness (2007) and Thorns (2009).
• Estelle Evans (1906-1985) Estelle Evans was born on October 1, 1906 in Hartswell, British West Indies. She was an actress, known for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Learning Tree (1969) and The Clairvoyant (1982).
• Dan Biggers (1931-2011) was an actor, known for Elizabethtown (2005), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) and Forces of Nature (1999).
• Karen Jones-Meadows Actress.
• Katherine Boshamer Actress.
• Benji Bligen Actor
• Moving Star Hall Singers of Johns Island, Charleston County, are nationally recognized for their important contributions to African-American musical heritage. They are a multi-generational family group who belong to Moving Star Hall, one of the last remaining praise houses of the South Carolina Sea Islands.
• Rosanna Carter (1918-2016) was born on 20 September 1918 in Rolle Town, Bahamas. She was an actress, known for I'll Fly Away (1991), Night of the Juggler (1980) and She-Devil (1989). She died on 30 December 2016 in Pompano Beach, Florida, USA.
• Dean Whitworth (1937 - 2018) He was an actor, known for Cold Mountain (2003), Trapper County War (1989) and King Kong Lives (1986).
• Danny Nelson (1935-2010) was an actor, known for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), A Time to Kill (1996) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).
• Timisha Barnes As a child Timisha Barnes-Jones scored her dream role working with Oprah, Whoopie, and Quincy Jones in The Color Purple. Now the chief of schools in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County in North Carolina encourages all of the students and adults she works with to dream bigger dreams.
• Al Hamacher is known for True Memoirs of an International Assassin (2016), The Best of Enemies (2019) and Major League: Back to the Minors (1998).
• Silent Cities - South Carolina Department of Archives and Histories. Cemeteries across South Carolina, including information about African American cemeteries beginning on page 12.