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In Powell and Pressburger’s 1946 film, A Matter of Life and Death, David Niven’s character - a WW2 fighter pilot - bails out of his burning
Dr. Melissa N. Stuckey is assistant professor of African American history at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. She is a specialist in early twentieth century black activism and a scholar committed to engaging the public in important conversations about African American history. She is the author of several magazine and journal articles including “Boley, Indian Territory: Exercising Freedom in the All Black Town,” published in 2017 in the Journal of African American History and "“Freedom on Her Own Terms: California M. Taylor and Black Womanhood in Boley, Oklahoma” in...