No Surrender! No Retreat! African American Pioneer Performers of the Twentieth-Century American Theater. By Glenda E. Gill. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000; pp. 230. $49.95 hardcover

2002 ◽  
Vol 43 (02) ◽  
pp. 484-485
Author(s):  
Annemarie Bean
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
American Theater

Her Standing in Poughkeepsie

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline A. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Law School ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Wellesley College ◽  
Vassar College ◽  
American Students ◽  
The World

This chapter traces the Bolins' lineage and legacy and Jane Bolin's place in it as a biracial child coming of age in early twentieth-century Poughkeepsie, New York. It examines her relationship with her siblings—Anna, Ivy, and Gaius Jr.—and with her father, who became the family's primary caregiver upon their mother's death. This very special relationship between father and youngest daughter was tested and strengthened as Jane Bolin ventured out into the world beyond Poughkeepsie for college and law school. Jane chose to attend Wellesley College in Massachusetts over Vassar College; she could not have attended Vassar either way since the school's unofficial policies barred the admission of African American students.

African American Theatre

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-197
Author(s):  
David Krasner ◽  
Lisa M. Anderson ◽  
Nadine George-Graves ◽  
John Rogers Harris ◽  
Barbara Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
New York Times ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Black Theatre ◽  
Theatre Company

David Krasner: In surveying contemporary London theatre, New York Times critic Ben Brantley reported that the Tricycle Theatre hadinaugurated a season of African-American plays with the commandingly titled but obscure Walk Hard, Talk Loud, a play by Abram Hill from the early1940's. Abram who? The name meant nothing to me, but Abram Hill (1910–1986) was a founder and director of the American Negro Theater in New York (1940–1951) and a playwright, it seems, of considerable verve.3That Abram Hill and the American Negro Theatre—the most important black theatre company during the mid-twentieth century—has flown below the radar is indicative of how much work still needs to be accomplished.

The Harlem Renaissance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrina Hill ◽  
Sophie Meridien ◽  
Keith Holt ◽  
Daniel Boyle ◽  
Paul Ardoin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
African American Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Breaking Work ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing of artistic, intellectual, musical, and literary accomplishments by African Americans between the World Wars. The movement took its name from Harlem, a neighborhood on the northern section of Manhattan Island. Harlem became the de facto center of the African American community in New York City, and many of the most important figures of the Renaissance called it home. During the Renaissance, intellectuals published ground-breaking work that explored philosophical questions and political possibilities for African Americans that would be explored throughout the twentieth century.

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