The Civil Rights Theatre Movement should be on the reading list of any scholar interested in civil rights culture, the history of American theatre in the 20th century, or the history of radicalism in the United States. (Madeline Steiner, gothamcenter.org, February 23, 2021)
Julie Burrell is an Assistant Professor of English and Black Studies at Cleveland State University, USA. She has published in MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States and Continuum: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre and Performance, as well as in the volume Imagining the Black Female Body: Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture (2010).
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Negro People's Theatre and the Emergence of the Civil Rights Theatre Movement.- Chapter 3: An American Dilemma: Dramas of the Returning Negro Soldier.- Chapter 4: Rescripting the Negro Problem: The Cold War-Civil Rights Play.- Chapter 5: To Be a Man: Progressive Masculinities in Lorraine Hansberry's Cold War-Civil Rights Plays.- Chapter 6: Alice Childress's Wedding Band and the Black Feminist Nation.- Epilogue.