The First Black Actors on the Great White Way Paperback - 2001
by Susan Curtis
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IN MANY RESPECTS the opening of Three Plays for a Negro Theater at the Garden Theatre on April 5, 1917, was like any other.
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Set against the backdrop of transforming theater conventions in the early 1900s and U.S. entry into World War I in 1917, The First Black Actors on the Great White Way relates the stories of the actors, stage artists, critics, and many others -- black and white -- involved in the groundbreaking production of Three Plays for a Negro Theater. Curtis explores in great depth both the progress in race relations that led to this production and the multifaceted reasons for its quick demise. She also investigates the heightened national self-consciousness that followed the United States' entry into the war. By focusing on a single event at a critical moment in history, The First Black Actors on the Great White Way offers a unique glimpse into race relations in early-twentieth-century American society.
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- Title The First Black Actors on the Great White Way
- Author Susan Curtis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edition. I
- Pages 277
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO
- Date March 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780826213303 / 0826213308
- Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6 x 0.9 in (23.37 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to 10 years
- Grade levels 13 - 5
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects African American actors, African American theater - New York (State)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98027203
- Dewey Decimal Code 792.028
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