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African Americans And The Theatre

Afro-American cinematic experience : an annotated bibliography & filmography

Hyatt, Marshall (ed.). (Scholarly Resources Inc., 1983)
McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 H9 1983

Black film stars

Landay, Eileen. (Drake Publishers [1973])
McNichols Campus Library
PN 1998 .A2 L33

Harlem stomp! : a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance

Hill, Laban Carrick. (Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown, [2004])
McNichols Campus Library
E 185.6 .H515 2004

Contents:  Song of smoke; the smoldering Black consciousness, 1900-1910 -- Moving out, fighting back; the great migration, organizing for freedom, and World War I, 1911-1920 -- Black metropolis; the rise of Harlem, 1900-1920 -- Dam breaking; Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, and opportunity in the arts, 1921-1924 -- Fire!!; an explosion of creativity -- Dark tower; a social breakthrough -- Stompin' at the Savoy; music and dance of the Renaissance -- Heritage unbound; Blacks and the American theater -- Against all odds; visual artists and their struggle for recognition -- Rage in the streets; the waning of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Harlem riots.

Black magic; a pictorial history of the Negro in American entertainment

Hughes, Langston; Meltzer, Milton. (Prentice-Hall [1967])
McNichols Campus Library
PN2286 .H75

Dancing revelations : Alvin Ailey's embodiment of African American culture

DeFrantz, Thomas. (Oxford University Press, 2004)
McNichols Campus Library
GV 1785 .A38 D44 2004

Ira Aldridge : the Negro tragedian

Marshall, Herbert; Stock, Mildred. (Howard University Press, 1993)
McNichols Campus Library
PN 2287 .A457 M37 1993

Negro in the American educational theatre : an organizational development, 1911-1964

Sandle, Floyd L.. (Grambling University, 1964)
McNichols Campus Library
PN 3182 .S3

Negro in the American theatre

Isaacs, Edith J.R.. (Theatre Arts, 1947)
McNichols Campus Library
PN2286 .I8

Stepin Fetchit : the life and times of Lincoln Perry

Watkins, Mel. (Pantheon Books, c2005)
McNichols Campus Library
PN 2287 .F425 W38 2005

Work of Vinnette Carroll, an African American theatre artist

McClinton, Calvin A.. (Edwin Mellen Press, c2000)
McNichols Campus Library
PN 2287 .C293 M33 2000

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