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Early Black Feminist Theatre and Lynching Dramas Revisited by Artsjournal1

"In the 1910s and 1920s, a number of African American women poets and authors turned to drama to address racial violence. Writers such as: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mary Burrill, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Myrtle Smith Livingston were among these writers who did so. With the majority of these Black women living in the […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM on November 24, 2019

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