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Nothing But a Man

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Nothing But a Man	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Nothing But a Man is a 1964 film directed by Michael Roemer.Duff Anderson is a black man who works on a railroad "section gang" (a mobile group of workers that repair tracks) in the Jim Crow south. One night he splits off from his buddies, who are drinking in a pool hall, and instead goes walking downtown. He finds his way into a church service. After enjoying the Gospel Revival Number, he attends the post-service social, and meets lovely Josie Dawson, the preacher's daughter. Rev. Dawson, who is about as upper-class as a black man can get in 1964 Alabama, disapproves of his daughter dating a common laborer. But soon enough Josie and Duff get married.Getting married means Duff has to leave the life of an itinerant railroad worker behind, and he takes a lower-paying job at a sawmill. Duff is a proud man, unwilling to bow and scrape to the white man in the way that blacks were expected to in the Deep South. His pride and self-respect wind up getting him fired from the sawmill, and blacklisted at other sawmills. Duff soon discovers how difficult life can be in Alabama for a black man who insists on being treated with respect.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Yaphet Kotto made his film debut as Jocko, one of Duff's buddies on the railroad gang.
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Nothing But a Man / int_3cfdffd7	comment	Angry Black Man: He should be angry, given the system of legal and economic apartheid operating in 1964 Alabama. Duff finds himself jobless and unable to support his family because he refuses to accept subservient status and won't truck with white people condescending to him.
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Nothing But a Man / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Duff's bitter old father, Will, ground down by life in the white man's world, taking solace in drink. He's drunk when Duff comes to see him and keeps drinking and getting more belligerent until he tells Duff to get lost. When Duff visits again, Will has been on a drinking bender so severe that he dies from alcohol poisoning.
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Nothing But a Man / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Category Traitor: It turns out Rev. Dawson is this. He is shown making a deal with some white power broker to prevent the black people of the town from suing to integrate the schools. He tells Duff that black people basically have to go along with white people and settle for what they can get. Josie, who sees through her father's moralizing, tells Duff towards the end of the film that her father never did anything to help the poor and jobless black people of the town.
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