The Civil Rights Theatre Movement in New York, 1939-1966 Staging Freedom /

• Main Author: Burrell, Julie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Theater.; Performing arts.; Theatre History.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.; Performing Arts.

This book argues that African American theatre in the twentieth century represented a cultural front of the civil rights movement. Highlighting the frequently ignored decades of the 1940s and 1950s, Burrell documents a radical cohort of theatre artists who became critical players in the fight for ci...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The Negro People's Theatre and the Emergence of the Civil Rights Theatre Movement
• Chapter 3: "An American Dilemma": Dramas of the Returning Negro Soldier
• Chapter 4: Rescripting the Negro Problem: The Cold War-Civil Rights Play
• Chapter 5: "To Be a Man": Progressive Masculinities in Lorraine Hansberry's Cold War-Civil Rights Plays
• Chapter 6: Alice Childress's Wedding Band and the Black Feminist Nation
• Epilogue.