Since he was 2 years old, Kevin Woodson wanted to be a cowboy. It didn’t take him long to realize that Black cowboys weren’t really believable, or so he was...
The sons of Hall of Famer Cleo Hearn, along with rodeo announcer Kevin Woodson are today’s real life cowboysByIt didn’t take him long to realize that Black cowboys weren’t really believable, or so he was told over and over again.
“Because of traditional western movies, people have been indoctrinated to think that all cowboys are white guys, and that is simply not true,” said Woodson, who has a career in rodeo, which he says has become an open door for people to see Black cowboys in action. “The exhibit of the Black Cowboy fills the gap of what has been taught about the American West. We want to tell the true story of what it was really like and not the romanticized version that we see on TV and in many of the movies,” said Robert Edison, curator of the Dallas African American Museum at Fair Park.
“My dad hosted one of the first Black rodeos in Harlem, New York, in 1971. He followed it up the next year with a rodeo in New Jersey,” said Harlan Hearn, who works with his brothers to keep his dad’s legacy alive. Walking through the exhibit, Harlan Hearn calls it impressive as he and his brothers view the untold stories of Black cowboys such as Bill Pickett, Myrtis Dightman and Nat Love.
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