zReportage.com Story of the Week #742: TUESDAY June 23, 2020 : BLACK COWBOYS are REAL by photographer Forest McMullin. ZUMA Press photographer Forest McMullin is a photographic educator based in Atlanta, GA. As McMullin learned more about the history of Black Rodeo in the US, his intention morphed from pure curiosity to a firm belief in the rodeo’s mission of bringing attention to the history of the black West. ‘The history of African American cowboys and their role in settling the West isn’t that much different from the history of other African American groups and it’s been largely ignored by historians and the media, the fact is that African Americans made up roughly 25 percent of the cowboys responsible for the historic movement west.’ The Southeast Rodeo Association is committed to keeping the cowboy way of life and upholding the important contributions the African American Cowboys played in helping tame the Old West.
zReportage.com Story of the Week #742 ‘BLACK COWBOYS ARE REAL’
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