CHAPTER EIGHTIt was all so long ago. I don’t know why you want to know this. Colored folks didn’t have the advantages then but we had each other. We stuck together. There were still people around who remembered slavery. The stories they told, the stories they told.
How did I get in the movie business? Well, because the book business wasn’t so good. Not enough customers. Who wanted to read a book that a colored man wrote, about colored folks? Only other colored folks, and we didn’t have good schools, and we didn’t have enough money for books. We didn’t have enough money for food, how could we buy books?
But I figured, if there was money for gin and money for moonshine, people still needed entertainment. Diversion. They made gramophone records for colored folks, called them race records. P
