The storied actor said in a 1971 interview he believed “in white supremacy.”
The University of Southern California said Friday it would dismantle an exhibit about legendary actor John Wayne amid revived scrutiny over the late star’s past racist remarks as the U.S. reexamines race relations in the wake of the death of George Floyd.based on the novel by Harry Brown and directed by Howard Hawks, 1966. The John Wayne exhibit will be removed from the USC School of Cinematic Arts building and put into the archives at the school’s library, the university said.
The exhibit will be housed alongside other artifacts and papers of influential Hollywood figures for research and scholarship. Wayne, who attended USC on a football scholarship for two years in the 1920s, made several racist remarks in a 1971, in which he said: “I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.”that early American settlers weren’t wrong for taking Native American land.
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