Camille Billops and James V. Hatch archives at Emory University.

Soyinka, Wole, 1934-

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Epithet: Wole', African author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000105 Wole Soyinka (born Oluwole Akinwande Babatunde Soyinka Wole, July 13, 1934, Abeokuta, Nigeria) is a Nigerian author and humanitarian. Educated at the University College, Ibadan (later the University of Ibadan) from 1952-54 and the University of Leeds (B.A., 1957). While in England, he served as a playreader at the Royal ...

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 ...

Mingus, Charles, III, 1944-

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Artist, playwright, filmmaker, animator, and teacher. Son of the jazz bassist Charles Mingus (1922-1979)....

Bonner, Marita, 1898-1971

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Marita Bonner, an African American writer, composer, and educator, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on June 16, 1898, to Joseph Andrew and Mary Anne (Noel) Bonner. She attended Brookline High School where she wrote for the school's magazine The Sagamore; and Radcliffe College where she graduated in 1922 with a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature. While at Radcliffe Bonner commuted from Brookline since the college did not allow African American students to live on campus. As a Radcl...

Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960

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Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, in 1894. She later used Eatonville as the setting for many of her stories. It is n...

Romero, Carmencita, 1914- 2001

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Carmencita Romero (1914-2001) was a dancer who was associated with Katherine Dunham's earliest efforts to establish a dance company in Chicago, first, as a member of her short-lived Ballet Nègre, and as a charter member of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. Romero later taught the Dunham Technique at schools in the United States, Europe, and Japan. She was born Lily May Butler (there are many variant spellings of her first name on official records) in Brookhaven, Mississippi on January 2, 19...

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 ...

Walcott, Derek

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Derek Walcott is a St. Lucian poet and dramatist of international repute. He attended The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica and lived for many years in Trinidad and Tobago, where he founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. His literary output has won him many outstanding international awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. From the description of Derek Walcott Collection, 1957-1981. [1957-1981] (The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, S...

Wilson, August.

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Richardson, Willis, 1889-1977

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Willis Richardson, playwright. From the description of The broken banjo : typescript, 1974. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 60799185 Playwright Willis Richardson (1889-1977) was the first African-American dramatist to have a non-musical work staged on Broadway when his play The Chip Woman's Fortune opened in May 1923. The first writer to win two first prizes during the Harlem Renaissance he is called by some the "Father of Black Drama". Born in Wilmington, Nor...

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...

Van Peebles, Melvin, 1932-....

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Melvin Van Peebles, playwright and composer. From the description of Aint supposed to die a natural death : typescript, 2004. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79467995 ...

Bullins, Ed

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Ed Bullins (1935- ), African American playwright. From the description of Ed Bullins papers, circa 1940-2010. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 535501845 ...

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014

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Amiri Baraka was born LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, in 1934. He was educated at Rutgers and Howard Universities, graduating from the latter at the age of 19. In 1958 he founded the influential poetry magazine Yugen, which ran until 1962. His writings, including fiction, essays, and poetry, appeared in such publications as The nation, Evergreen review, Downbeat, and The floating bear. From the description of Imamu Amiri Baraka papers, 1958-1982. (University of California, Berkele...

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. ...

Hatch, James Vernon, 1928-....

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James V. Hatch and Larry Garvin, playwrights. From the description of Safe at last: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144651984 ...

Shine, Ted.

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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was born September 4, 1908 near Natchez, Mississippi, to Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher, and Nathan Wright, a sharecropper. The story of Richard Wright's childhood, with its harrowing episodes of abandonment by his father, his temporary consignment to an orphanage after his mother became ill, and his short-lived schooling under the harsh guardianship of his grandmother have been detailed in his autobiography, Black Boy (published in 1945 by Harper & Row)....

Dee, Ruby

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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 ...

Billops, Camille

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Artist and filmmaker Camille Billops was born on August 12, 1933, in Los Angeles, California. Billops' career has consisted of printmaking, sculpture, book illustration and filmmaking. She obtained her B.A. degree from California State University as well as her M.F.A. degree from City College of New York in 1975. Her primary medium is sculpture, and her works are in the permanent collections of the Jersey City Museum in Jersey City, New Jersey, and the Museum of Drawers, Bern, Switzerland. Billo...