“Put Together to Please a Colored Audience”: Black Churches, Motion Pictures, and Migration at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.

AFRICAN American migrations; MOTION pictures; AFRICAN American churches; BACOTE, Samuel W.; POPE, H. Charles; HYNES, William G.; ROYSTON, Harry A.; AFRICAN American history; HISTORY; SOCIAL history; MOTION picture history

The article discusses African American social conditions and migration at the turn of the 20th century, particularly the significance of motion pictures and African American churches, particularly the Kansas City, Missouri, Second Baptist Church. The article discusses Second Baptist Church pastor Samuel W. Bacote in fostering racial progress, utilizing motion pictures in African American unity, and Second Baptist Church's moving-picture exhibitions. The article also discusses the traveling movie exhibitions of Washington, D.C., minister H. Charles Pope, Nashville, Tennessee, minister William G. Hynes, and Knoxville, Tennessee, resident Harry A. Royston.