Playwrights
The first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago.
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
A dramatic company composed of black actors, originally from Harlem
Who were The Lafayette Players?
A play by Lorraine Hansberry that examines an African American family attempting to escape the setting they live in and make a better life for themselves
What is A Raisin in the Sun?
This major world event marked the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance.
What was the end of world war I?
A music form born in the United States, born out of the Black experience in America, and combining African and European a musical traditions
What is Jazz?
This playwright was the author of a cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about Black American life. He won Pulitzer Prizes for two of them: Fences and The Piano Lesson.
Who is August Wilson?
African American stage actor who left the US for Britain to portray Shakespearean characters
Who was Ira Aldridge?
This play written by August Wilson won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play.
What is Fences?
An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, and politics spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
What was the Harlem Renaissance
Formed in 1909, this organization's mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination
What is the NAACP?
An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry, this writer is also known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Langston Hughes?
This actress was the first African-American to win a Tony Award. She won Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in South Pacific as Bloody Mary.
Who is Juanita Hall?
The company that originally produced the very successful plays "The River Niger" and "A Soldier's Play."
What was the Negro Ensemble Company?
Laws that enforced racial segregation in the US
What is the Jim Crow Laws?
This pancake mix built its name and brand around a minstrel show character.
What is Aunt Jemimas?
The first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her 2001 play Topdog/Underdog.
Who is Suzan Lori Parks?
Actress and playwright who specialized in "docu-dramas" where she portrayed accurate imitations of real-life people with their actual words
Who was Anna Deveare Smith?
A play believed to be written William A. Brown. Widely believed to be the first play written by a black playwright in America.
What was The Drama of King Shotaway?
This political event led to the rise in minstrel shows.
What was the abolition of slavery?
The Harlem renaissance set the stage for this movement by redefining how African American culture was viewed.
What was the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s
This famous comic duo wrote one of the most influential musicals during the Harlem Renaissance, Shuffle Along
Who were Aubrey Lyles and Flournoy Miller?
Two of the most sought-after comedians in America. In 1903 they starred in In Dahomey, the first all-black musical comedy on Broadway.
Who were Bert Williams and George Walker?
A play written and performed by Anna Devere Smith about the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
What is Twilight Los Angeles?
The relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest, and West from about 1916 to 1970.
What was the great migration?
This movement demonstrates that while strides have been made in the fight for eqality, it is still something we need to be actively working to solve today.
What is the Black Lives Matter Movement?