In response to the film's impact, blacks began making movies themselves.

Blacks began using their own schools and churches for the first time.

Starting in 1933, blacks began to move out of Humble.

Blacks began to win elective office in local and state government.

But she says the conversation gave her hope that blacks and whites were beginning to share some ground.

First, when many blacks began moving in, people were concerned.

For one thing, he said, blacks in the music business were beginning to realize that "we're a network among ourselves."

Blacks began to vote in substantial numbers, and the politics of the region was transformed.

Blacks began to be elected to public offices on the local, state and Congressional levels.

Believing that they had found a promised land, blacks began to move up North in larger numbers.