Bill Bojangles Robinson and Shirley Temple

Bill Bojangles Robinson and Shirley Temple dance in "The Littlest Rebel" (1935)

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[thewordkeeper]

To this day no child actor can hold a torch to Shirley Temple.

[meshachre]

No fancy choreography -- just pure unadulterated talent

[tvbabay]

Early disco move by Mr. Robinson at :29!

[wanderliscious]

how on earth did a lovely bit of song and dance by an adorable and gifted child and a very very talent black man foster such vitriolic debate? so silly

[f250phil]

@Carvinter WHAT POSESSED YOU TO EVER LEAVE ALABAMA ? YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED. MAYBE YOU COULD HAVE HELPED SOME OF THE 3 - BRAIN - CELLED REDNECK REBELS

[HarryHardcash]

Obama and Pelosi figure out how to raise revenues.

[odbza]

@jazzscherzo actually no

[Carvinter]

@iralevifan I can see that you've no basic idea of the mores of basic Southern 50's culture. It was an era where a black man could be arrested for "reckless eyeballing" a white woman,let alone whistling at one. Till's behavior that day, I believe, famously led us down that slippery slope that's so rampant today- especially in Harlem where I was partially raised. Special programs encouraging good behavior is front page news, because clearly, it's far from the norm in that community.

[iralevifan]

@Carvinter -Ignorant isn't an insult-just means you don't know.why should whistling at a woman be reason for murder or destruction of a community? I see well-behaved,polite gatherings of inner-city kids all the time. See the kids in Harlem's 100 block program.Look at the depression, homicidal feelings and drug abuse that plague privileged,suburban kids. Again..what is your point? 

[Carvinter]

@iralevifan I'd never stoop so low as to call anyone who disagreed with me ignorant, but I am baffled that you can make sense out of a drive-by shooting. Deliberately putting one's life in danger (as well as a whole community), is not youthful rebellion, but the height of ignorance. I was in Alabama as a youth, and I've lived in the inner-city. I know from whence I speak- real life experience, not isolation.

[iralevifan]

@Carvinter- I still don't see how youthful rebellion warrants cold-blooded murder.The examples you cited ( , Rosewood, Tulsa,etc) are examples of the barbaric nature of bigoted whites.The actions of a gangbanger in a drive-by makes more sense than white people bringing children to watch the lynching of another human being for a social slight.To think that any group of inner city kids will display 'mindless' behavior only shows how ignorant and isolated you are. Do some research b4 you speak

[iralevifan]

@Carvinter- I still don't see how youthful rebellion warrants cold-blooded murder.The examples you cited ( , Rosewood, Tulsa,etc) are examples of the barbaric nature of bigoted whites.The actions of a gangbanger in a drive-by makes more sense than white people bringing children to watch the lynching of another human being for a social slight.To think that any group of inner city kids will display 'mindless' behavior only shows how ignorant and isolated you are.