Carlton Moss

Carlton Moss (born 1909?—died August 10, 1997, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was a filmmaker who inspired later African American filmmakers with the industrial, training, and educational films that he made in the era when segregation and discrimination prevented blacks from writing or directing films in Hollywood. After growing up in North Carolina and Newark, New Jersey, Moss attended Morgan College (now Morgan State University) in Baltimore, Maryland, where he formed a black student theatre troupe....