Finding a New Home in Harlem: Alice Childress and the Committee for the Negro in the Arts

Authors

Judith E. Smith, University of Massachusetts BostonFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

5-2017

Abstract

Alice Childress’s performing career in the 1940s was primarily associated with the American Negro Theater, a collectively run professional theater company with a mission to nurture black talent and create compelling theater for Harlem audiences; as Childress would later comment, “We thought we were Harlem’s theater.” ANT made use of all available resources to accomplish this mission; producing plays written by black and white playwrights, hiring white teachers, and accepting white actors and technicians committed to its goals.

Comments

Paper presented for a panel, “Home Matters,” at the American Literature Association Conference, Boston MA, May 25-28, 2017.

Recommended Citation

Smith, Judith E., "Finding a New Home in Harlem: Alice Childress and the Committee for the Negro in the Arts" (2017). American Studies Faculty Publication Series. 14.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/amst_faculty_pubs/14