Research Catalog
Alice Childress audio and moving image collection.
- Title
- Alice Childress audio and moving image collection.
- Author
- Childress, Alice
- Publication
- [1997]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MIRS Childress 1998-56 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 5 audiocassettes
- 1 videocassette
- Summary
- The collection consists of five audio recordings and one moving image recording documenting performances and research dating from 1959-1991.
- Subjects
- Video recordings
- Sound recordings
- American drama > African American authors
- Women in the theater > United States
- American drama > 20th century
- Dramatists, American > 20th century
- African American dramatists
- African American authors
- African American theater
- African American actresses
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Biography (note)
- Pioneering African-American writer, actress, and director Alice Childress (1916-1994) was known for her plays and her best-selling young adult novel, A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich. Her career began in 1944 with the American Negro Theatre's production of Anna Lucasta. Childress began writing plays in the late 1940s, becoming the first Black woman to have a play produced in the United States, and the first Black woman to receive an OBIE for Best Off-Broadway Play.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Alice Childress archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Alice Childress papers, 1937-1997. (Sc MG 649)
- Call Number
- Sc MIRS Childress 1998-56
- OCLC
- 1191031284
- Author
- Childress, Alice, creator.
- Title
- Alice Childress audio and moving image collection.
- Publisher
- [1997]
- Biography
- Pioneering African-American writer, actress, and director Alice Childress (1916-1994) was known for her plays and her best-selling young adult novel, A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich. Her career began in 1944 with the American Negro Theatre's production of Anna Lucasta. Childress began writing plays in the late 1940s, becoming the first Black woman to have a play produced in the United States, and the first Black woman to receive an OBIE for Best Off-Broadway Play.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Alice Childress archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Alice Childress papers, 1937-1997. (Sc MG 649)
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Atkins, Cholly.Taylor, Clarice, 1927-2011.Woodard, Nathan.American Negro Theatre.PEN (Organization)
- Research Call Number
- Sc MIRS Childress 1998-56