Negro Ensemble Company records 1967-1993

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Negro Ensemble Company records 1967-1993

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The records of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), 1967-1993 document the work of the most successful African-American theatrical company in the United States to date. In addition to information about the productions, the records also document the growth of the company through the development of its administrative structure and of the funding base that keeps a theatrical company alive. The collection is divided into three series, thirteen subseries, and eighteen sub-subseries.

180 linear. ft. (215 archival boxes, 4 flat boxes)

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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SNAC Resource ID: 6317163

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Ward, Douglas Turner, 1930-2021

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Negro Ensemble Company co-founder, actor, director, and playwright Douglas Turner Ward was born Roosevelt Ward, Jr. on May 5, 1930, in Burnside, Louisiana. Ward was a descendant of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the Ku Klux Klan; his great, great, great-grandmother, Elnora, owned as a slave by Forrest, bore a child with him. Ward's parents, Roosevelt Ward and Dorothy Short Ward were field hands, but they owned their own tailoring business. Raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and attend...

Audience Development Committee

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Williams, Samm-Art

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Samm-Art Williams, playwright. From the description of Brass birds don't sing: typescript, 1977. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122616182 ...

Dean, Phillip Hayes

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Carter, Steve, 1929-

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Rhone, Trevor D., 1940-2009

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Lee, Leslie, 1944-

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Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982

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Walker, Joseph A., 1935-

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McDonalds Literary Awards Contest.

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Fuller, Charles

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Krone, Gerald S

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Elder, Lonne

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Denmark, Leon

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Walcott, Derek

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Negro Ensemble Company

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The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) was a black repertory company that presented works on social themes that were germane to black life and expanded opportunities for experienced black theatre artists. NEC was founded in 1967 by actor/playwright Douglas Turner Ward, actor Robert Hooks and theatre administrator Gerald Krone, with a $434,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. The company offered professional training to potential new talent and for a brief time had a training company for bo...

Harrison, Paul Carter, 1936-....

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Paul Carter Harrison, African American playwright, was born on March 1, 1936 in New York City, New York to Thelma Inez and Paul Randolph Harrison. In 1957, Harrison earned a B.A. in psychology from Indiana University, and after moving back to New York, earned a M.A. in psychology and phenomenology from the New School for Social Research in 1962. After spending several years in Europe, Harrison was hired as an assistant professor in theater arts at Howard University in 1968. He went on to teach t...

Holland, Endesha Ida Mae, 1944-2006

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Endesha Ida Mae Holland (August 29, 1944 – January 25, 2006) was an American scholar, playwright, and civil rights activist. She earned a BA, MA, and PhD at the University of Minnesota, where she helped start an African-American studies department....