The world premiere of Song of the South took place in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 12th, 1946. James Baskett was conspicuously absent, despite portraying a major character in the film ...

“Song of the South” remains the most controversial ... In the film, James Baskett voices Uncle Remus, a character of African American folklore from the 1800s adapted into a published ...

and they’re the characters seen throughout Splash Mountain. Uncle Remus is not, however, and with his erasure from the story goes any confession or context for the racism of Song of the South.

In screenwriter Dalton Reymond's original outline for "Song of the South," white characters called Uncle Remus an "old darkie," and Black characters referred to white family members as "massa." ...

A Disney Parks cast member dressed as The Princess and ... Because there was a Song of the South ride, built years after Disney moved away from distributing the film, and decades after its initial ...

Song of the South is based on a series of short stories by Joel Chandler Harris and features a character named Uncle Remus, a Black man in the Reconstruction era who essentially glorifies slavery.

The female characters in subsequent volumes ... civil rights reforms had actually solved racism. The fact that Song of the South existed in the form it did was dismissed as evidence of historical ...