Willis Richardson, Forgotten Pioneer of African-American Drama

by Christine Rauchfuss Gray and Bernard L. Peterson

Book Overview

During the 1920s and 1930s, Willis Richardson (1889-1977) was highly respected as a leading African-American playwright and drama anthologist. His plays were performed by numerous black high school, college, and university drama groups and by theater companies in Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Baltimore, and Atlanta. With the opening of The Chip Woman's Fortune (1923), he became the first African American to have a play produced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313303738
• ISBN13: 9780313303739
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.4"