Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored -DVD -17153950601

Actor Tim Reid (WKRP in Cincinnati) made his directorial debut with this filmed adaptation of Clifton L. Taulberts autobiography. Set in an African-American community in the segregated South. Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored follows a young Taulbert through three decades. beginning with his birth in a cotton field in 1946. As he grows up. Taulbert is faced with the harsh realities of being black in the mid-20th century: first from the lessons of his great-grandfather (Al Freeman Jr.). later in his trips to the local segregated library. and finally in 1962. when a 16-year-old Taulbert watches as his community deals with a racist white business owner trying to run a local black ice man out of town. Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored was the recipie