Their staircase dance together remains one of the iconic movie scenes of the period and was one of the first times black and white actors appeared on equal terms in the same film. Miss Temple ...

Generations of little girls have watched the ebullient Shirley Temple light up Depression-era black and white films, her glossy curls bouncing and her voice chirping. Generations, too, developed a ...

Shirley Temple Black, who as the most popular child movie ... to the West African nation of Ghana and later served as White House chief of protocol for President Ford. She also was an ambassador ...

But Temple's films weren't without controversy. She made a string of films with Bill Bojangles Robinson, a black actor and dancer. A middle-aged black man and a small white girl holding hands ...