Black Activists Write Wheatley and Washington
This book examines how early twentieth-century Black theatre artists depicted national mythologies of the United States.
White-authored pageants and plays written for the 1932 Bicentennial celebration of George Washington’s birthday relegated Black Americans to the periphery through racist stereotyping. Black activists Mary Church Terrell and W. E. B. Du Bois seized the opportunity to place Black p...
This book examines how early twentieth-century Black theatre artists depicted national mythologies of the United States.
White-authored pageants and plays written for the 1932 Bicentennial celebration of George Washington’s birthday relegated Black Americans to the periphery through racist stereotyping. Black activists Mary Church Terrell and W. E. B. Du Bois seized the opportunity to place Black p...
