1. African american theatre history
... it. Working class white people were into it too. White people dressed up as plantation slaves and acted like black musical in the act of dance forms. Everyone was in depression because of the war, but this was used to cheer people up. When white people wanted to join, ... was on the board of the Theater Union and directed the Harlem Experimental Theater. She also organized the Negro People's theater, which was the beginning of modern black theatre movement. Writers like Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglass, W.E.B Dubois, Gwendolyn Brook, Zoral Neale Hurston, Langston Hug...
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