Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960

by Bernard L. Peterson

This directory includes over 500 African American performers and theater people who have made a significant contribution to the American stage from the early 19th century to the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Entries provide succinct biographical and theatrical information gathered from a variety of sources including library theater and drama collections, dissertations and theses, newspaper and magazine reviews and criticism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313295344
• ISBN13: 9780313295348
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"