Alice Childress papers 1937-1997

Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian, 1930-1965

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Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Illinois - died January 12, 1965, New York City), African-American playwright, writer and activist, is best known for her play, "A Raisin in the Sun." Born in 1930 in Chicago to real estate broker, Carl Hansberry and Nannie Louise Perry (her uncle was the Africanist scholar, William Leo Hansberry), Lorraine grew up on the south side of Chicago. "A Raisin in the Sun" was inspired by her father's legal battle against a racially restrictive covenant ...

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

Scott, Hazel

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Ward, Theodore, 1902-1983

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Big white fog was originally written in 1938. The Guthrie Theater's production marked the first full-scale staging of the play since 1940. From the description of Big white fog / by Theodore Ward, 1995. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 709903450 Theodore Ward (1902-1983), African American playwright. From the description of Theodore Ward collection. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 706098627 Writer. From the description of Papers,...

Fuller, Hoyt, 1923-1981

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Hoyt William Fuller (1923-1981), African American author and editor, born in Atlanta, Georgia. From the description of Hoyt Fuller papers, 1940-1981. (Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.). WorldCat record id: 38475704 ...

National Rainbow Coalition (U.S.)

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Wideman, John Edgar, 1941-

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John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and essayist. He was the first person to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice. His writing is known for experimental techniques and a focus on the African-American experience. Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wideman excelled as a student athlete at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1963, he became the second African American to win a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxfor...

Dodson, Owen, 1914-1983

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Owen Dodson was a playwright and author. From the description of Owen Dodson Collection 1936-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80551547 From the description of Owen Dodson Collection 1936-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148305 African American author, poet, playwright, and professor of drama at Howard University; died 1983. From the description of Owen Dodson papers, 1930-1968. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 741522194...

Walcott, Derek

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Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965

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1896 Dec.15 Born to John Goode and Eslanda Cardozo Goode in Washington, D.C., the third of three children; brothers John and Frank. Maternal grandfather was Francis Lewis Cardozo, who served as South Carolina's Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury during Reconstruction Days. 1912 Graduated from Urbana High School, Urbana, Illinois. ...

Davis, Ossie

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Ossie Davis is an actor, playwright and director who has performed for stage, film and television, and specializes in film production relating to black culture and history. Born in 1919 in Cogdell, Georgia, Davis attended Howard University from 1938 to 1941. His theater career began in the early 1940's with such plays to his credit as "Anna Lucasta," "No Time for Sergeants," "A Raisin in the Sun," and "Purlie Victorious." Three of the many films he acted in are "The Joe Louis Story,...

Allen, Debbie, 1950-

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Rainbow Coaltion. Roosevelt Island Chapter (New York, N.Y.)

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Koppleman, Susan

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Washington, Mary Helen.

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Jessye, Eva, 1895-1992

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Eva Jessye-Director of Music-Writer. b. Coffeyville, Kan.; educated Western University, Kansas City, Kan.; State University for Colored, Langston, OK. Director of Music, Morgan College, Baltimore, Md., 1920; Editorial staff, Afro-American, Baltimore, Md., one year. Won prizes: Essay, Music, Poetry, Interstate Literary Society of Kansas and the West; President Interstate Society, 1924. Director of Music, first all-Negro moving picture, "Hallelujah," produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation, di...

Roberts, Flora

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CALDWELL, BEN

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Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996

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American farmer, historian, political analyst, anthropologist, editor, and author. From the description of Harold Courlander collection, [19--]. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70962497 Novelist and folklorist. From the description of The African ; a novel : typescripts, [1967?] / by Harold Courlander. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34491687 From the description of Analysis of Haley's plagiarism of The African : typescript (photoc...

Killens, John O., 1916-

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Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998

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Born in 1915, the oldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, John Henrik Clarke was a self-trained historian who edited and wrote over thirty books, and was a leading figure in the development of African heritage and black studies programs nationwide. He was a co-founder of the Harlem Quarterly (1949-1951) and an associate editor of the journal Freedomways. During the 1960s, he served as director of the African Heritage unit of the anti-poverty program Harlem Youth Op...

Borne, Kay

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Dubois, Rachel Davis

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Rachel Davis DuBois (1892-1993) was a Quaker educator, writer, and a pioneer in interfaith and interracial dialogue and intercultural education. From the description of Papers, 1920-1993. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 47123015 Rachel Davis DuBois (1892- ) was born in Clarkesboro, New Jersey, the daughter of Quaker farmers. She attended Bucknell University and taught school in New Jersey until 1920. From 1920 to 1924, she was active in the peace movem...

Childress, Alvin, -1986

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Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984

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Julian Mayfield lived a varied career as a novelist, playwright, actor, journalist and critic, aide to two heads of state, an educator and writer-in-residence at several colleges and universities. He wrote, produced and directed several off-Broadway and summer stock productions between 1949 and 1954. He played the juvenile lead role of Absalom Kumalo in the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson musical "Lost in the Stars," and directed Ossie Davis's first play, "Alice in Wonder," ...

Haynes, Hilda, 1912-1986

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Hilda Haynes (1912-1986) was a stage, screen and television actress whose career spanned almost forty years. Haynes was born and raised in New York City, and became an actress during the early 1940s. She studied and performed with the American Negro Theatre during the 1940s and 1950s; was a member of the Negro Actors Guild; and performed in "The River Niger" (Negro Ensemble Company) during its national tour, 1973-74; as well as in several Broadway and Off-Off Broadway shows, films and television...

Evans, Don, 1938-

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Patterson, Louise Thompson, 1901-1999

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Louise Alone Thompson Patterson, born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 9, 1901, the only child of William Toles and Lula P. Brown. After the divorce of her parents when she was four, Patterson spent her childhood in numerous western cities. She graduated cum laude from the University of California at Berkeley in 1923 with a degree in economics. She worked various jobs and taught for two years before going to New York City to study at the New York School of Social Work (now part of...

Harris, Trudier

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Hay, Samuel A.

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Brown, Janet, 1952-....

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Shearer, Jacqueline

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Jacqueline (Jackie) Sharer was an independent producer and director of documentary films about African Americans. Shearer was born in Boston and graduated from Brandeis University. Her films included "A Minor Altercation" (1978), and "The Keys to the Kingdom" and "The Promised Land" (1989), two segments of the Emmy Award-winning "Eyes on the Prize" (1991), a documentary series about the civil rights movement that aired on public television. She also produced "The Colored 54th Regiment" (1991) wh...

Childress, Alice

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Pioneering African-American writer, actress and director Alice Childress (1916-1994) was popularly known for her best-selling novel, "A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich," and her plays, most notably "Wedding Band: A Love Story in Black and White." In the 1930s she met and married Alvin Childress, best known for his role as Amos in the television series, "Amos and Andy. "She was a founding member of the American Negro Theatre, and in 1944 she and her husband Alvin appeared in "Anna ...

Franklin, Alyce

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Barbour, Floyd B.

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Bullins, Ed

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African American playwright Ed Bullins, who began writing plays as a political activist in the mid-1960s and was later the associate director of Harlem's New Lafayette Theatre, helped shape the revolutionary theater of black experience. "Ed Bullins." Contemporary Authors Online (reproduced in Biography Resource Center). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed November 2009). From the guide to the It Bees Dat Way (a C...

Woodard, Nathan

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Murphy, Carl, 1889-1967

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Childress, Alvin, -1986

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Lattery, Kristen Hunter, 1931-

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Snyder, Anne

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Ad Hoc Committee to End the Crimes Against Paul Robeson

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Duberman, Martin B.

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Martin Bauml Duberman (1930- ), American historian and playwright, has taught history at Yale University, Princeton University and Herbert Lehman College, City University of New York. He wrote biographies of Charles Francis Adams, James Russell Lowell and Paul Robeson as well as historical studies, plays, essays, and reviews. His plays include In White America (1963) about the struggle of African-Americans for freedom and civil rights. Since 1972 he has been active in th...

Taylor, Clarice, 1927-2011

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Martin, Helen, 1909-2000

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Hovey, Serge

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Based on stories by Sholem Aleichem (pseudonym for Shalom Rabinowitz, 1859-1916). Composed 1954. First performance Cincinnati, Ohio, 21 February 1958, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Chorus of the College Conservatory of Music of Cincinnati, Children's Chorus from the Bureau of Jewish Education of Cincinnati, Thor Johnson conductor, Robert Bennett and Lucille Rinsky soloists.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Sholem Aleichem suite / by Serge Hovey. [c1957] (Franklin &a...

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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Poet, author, playwright, songwriter. From the guide to the Langston Hughes collection, [microform], 1926-1967, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) From the description of Langston Hughes collection, 1926-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 144652168 Langson Hughes: African-American poet and writer, author of Weary Blue (1926), The Big Sea (1940), and other works. ...

Shine, Ted.

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Dee, Ruby

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Almost a lifelong New Yorker, Ruby Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace on October 27, 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her family soon moved to New York, and Dee was raised during the golden age of Harlem. After high school, she attended New York's Hunter College, graduating in 1945. Expressive and literate, Dee was drawn to the theatre while still a college student. Dee acted in small Shakespearian productions and landed a role in the play,South Pacificin 1943. She also began to study with the American Negro...

Wallace, Emmett Babe, 1909-2006

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Emmett "Babe" Wallace is a singer, composer, actor and writer. He has performed in cabarets, musical revues, films and the theater. As a composer and writer, he has produced a voluminous body of musical compositions, poetry essays and journals. From the guide to the Emmett "Babe" Wallace papers, 1937-1975, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) Emmett "Babe" Wallace is a singe...

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...

Shockely, Ann Allen, 1927-

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Olson, Tillie, 1912-2007

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