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Films: Myths And Untruths Of Black Americans
In addition films from Two-Gun Man from Harlem, Blazing Saddle, Lightning Jack and Buffalo Soldier helped clear up myths and untruths that black people did exist back then and they also could have been lawmen and cowboys. Many films just like Buffalo Soldier and Blazing Saddle and unbury America History. Walter Moses Burton was a former slaved turn farmer and then elected first black sheriff of American. Burton was the first elected sheriff in American in 1868. Also, Bass Reeves was one of the first black Deputy U.S. Marshals. Bass Reeves also arrested 3,000 people and even killed fourteen outlaws in his time as a
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