The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Ntozake Shange

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Ntozake Shange

9/12/2016; 02/01/2017

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2016.042

Playwright and author Ntozake Shange (1948 - 2018) wrote the award-winning Broadway play and choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, which was published in book form, and adapted into a 2010 film. Shange was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 9/12/2016 and 02/01/2017, in Washington, D.C., D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 8; Total Run Time: 03h 41m 12s

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Shange, Ntozake.

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Playwright and author Ntozake Shange was born Paulette L. Williams on October 18, 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey to Paul T. Williams, an air force surgeon, and Eloise Williams, an educator and psychiatric social worker. Her family regularly hosted artists like Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Robeson, and W.E.B. DuBois at their home. Shange graduated cum laude with her B.S. degree in American Studies from Barnard College in New York City in 1970. While pursuing her M.A. degree in American Studies from the Uni...