Background
Charles Burnett was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on April 13, 1944 to a nurse's aide and a military father. According to a DNA analysis, he descended, mainly, of people from Sierra Leone. In 1947, Charles's family moved to Watts, a largely black neighborhood in South Los Angeles. Although Burnett was interested in expressing himself through art from a young age, the economic pressure to maintain a stable job initially kept him from pursuing film or art in college.
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