... to the shopping aisles. Rutt and Underwood began the quest for a trademark "they were searching for Aunt Jemima. Chris Rutt attended a local vaudeville house in the autumn of 1889. On the bill was a pair of black-face comedians, Baker & Farrell, a team of white entertainers blackened with brunt ... created a social philosophy of Black Nationalism that would re-educate Blacks in America of the important of controlling their image in society (Malcolm, 39). Black Americans were beginning to become impatient with white hegemony and democracy in general and swayed their politics to an uncompro...

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