A link to the pamphlet, The Negro in Hollywood Films, by V.J. Jerome published in 1950. Jerome was chairman of the National Cultural Commission of the Communist Party, USA, at the time. He was the first person to be questioned by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in Hollywood.
https://archive.org/details/negroin00jero
He discusses and is critical of some then-recent films, Pinky, Intruder in the Dust, Lost Boundaries and Home of the Brave as well as earlier, blatantly racist movies. Mentions the fact that, for some reason, American movies about the Civil War were almost all pro-Confederate.
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