When it comes to people of African-American descent in western films they are portrayed as criminals, workers (or slaves depending in time), created as they do not exist in the west, or just moved up north after the civil war ended. In western films, black people were either placed in the background as working, and some post-civil war films still portrayed black men as slaves. Films such as Sidney Poitier’s 1972 film Buck and the Preacher gave Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee and as well as himself leading roles in the film. Still, the first western film starring a person of African-American descent with the main lead is the 1938 Two-Gun Man from Harlem. Herbert Jeffrey’s character Bob Blake/The Deacon is cowboy who wrongfully accused of murder in
