Black Activists Write Wheatley and Washington Terrell, Du Bois, and the Drama of the 1932 Bicentennial Politics / Current Events even on a leap year

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Black Activists Write Wheatley and Washington Terrell, Du Bois, and the Drama of the 1932 Bicentennial Politics / Current Events even on a leap yearThis book examines how early twentieth century Black theatre artists depicted national mythologies of the United States. White authored pageants and plays written for the 1932 Bicentennial celebration of George Washington's birthday relegated Black Americans to the periphery through racist stereotyping. Black activists Mary Church Terrell and W. E. B. Du Bois seized the opportunity to place Black people at center stage and to revise contemporary views