The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars and Motor Kings.
Please address each of the following questions with a short essay answer (1 page).
1. This movie is billed as a comedy because they had to market it, but it is not really a comedy. What is it? How would you describe it?
2. How did the barnstormers, and indeed the filmmakers, frame the clowning aspects in such a way as to make this movie palatable to white audiences?
3. What did the Negro Leagues contribute to American society? Why were teams mostly only successful in the North?
4. Josh Gibson (the character modeled by James Earl Jones) died very young, and never got a chance to hit against Major League pitching in a real game. What can we say about someone who didn’t get to fulfill his potential not because of anything he did or didn’t do, but because he was denied access? What can you do to make sure someone else has access to something important?
