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By gvwireIn California, News, U.S.Posted February 4, 2019

Picture of Floyd Norman sketching

Floyd Norman is an award-winning animator and in 1956 became the first African American hired by Walt Disney. In 2017, he was named the Ford Freedom Award scholar for his efforts to improve the African American community and the world at large. The previous year, the documentary movie "Floyd Norman: An...