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Junius Griffin (January 13, 1929 – June 1, 2005) was an African American Civil Rights activist working as the President of the Beverly-Hills Hollywood chapter of the NAACP, who is best known for his work alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as well as for coining the term “Blaxploitation” in regard to the African American film industry of the ...
Oct 19, 2021 · Junius Griffin, who ran the Hollywood branch of the NAACP—there’s a job—worried that it was glorifying violence, drug use and a life of crime. He didn’t just worry.
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Jun 1, 2005 · After enlisting at 17 in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, Junius Griffin served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War as a writer and editor for Pacific Stars and Stripes, eventually being named Far East Bureau Chief.
- Beaufort, South Carolina
- January 13, 1929
- Stonega, Wise County, Virginia, USA
The term, a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation", was coined in August 1972 by Junius Griffin, the president of the Beverly Hills–Hollywood NAACP branch. He claimed the genre was "proliferating offenses" to the black community in its perpetuation of stereotypes often involved in crime. [2]
Sep 21, 2008 · Dr. Junius Griffin: From the Mountains to the Sea. Born on January 13th, 1929 in a coal camp of Stonega, Virginia, Junius Griffin attended the two-room Stonega School for the Colored and later Central High School in Appalachia.
Jan 25, 2018 · The term "blaxploitation" was coined by Junius Griffin, the then-head of the Los Angeles National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in the early 70s as a criticism for the less-than-positive images of African Americans depicted in the genre, and his influence would later contribute to its demise.
May 23, 2024 · Junius Griffin, then president of the Beverly Hills chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is sometimes credited with inventing the somewhat ambiguous term blaxploitation to describe the short-lived genre.
