The Searchers: Screening Civil Rights 

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This page will contain a description of my project's goals and my main argument.  I plan to argue that White-Native American relations in John Ford's The Searchers reflect anxieties over Black-White relations during the beginning of the Civil Rights movement.

Ethan, Marty, and Look from The Searchers

The Searchers poster
Photo of John Wayne from The Searchers
French-language poster of The Searchers
 
 

 
Page by Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges.  Questions and comments to kgb@u.washington.edu. Last updated 2/15/01.