​A Time and A Place
March 27th 1973 - L A

On March 27th 1973 at the Motion pictures Academy Awards, 'The Godfather' won Three awards:
Best film, Best Actor (Marlon Brando) and Best Screenplay.
Marlon Brando didn't attend, and instead asked  Sacheen Littlefeather
a Native American actress to explain why he had refused his Oscar.

Brando was protesting about the treatment of the Native Americans by the Film Industry and also drawing attention an escalating incident at Wounded Knee in South Dakota (the site of the 1890 Sioux massacre) where the native American Indians were fighting for their civil rights.

Marlon Brando, together with  Sacheen's speech brought mass media attention to their plight and furthered their cause.

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