Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Spence, Eulalie.

Description

1. .4 linear feet (1 box).

Summary

1. The Eulalie Spence collection consists of correspondence, playbills, scripts, agreements and newspaper clippings.

Subject

1. African American dramatists
2. African Americans > Drama
3. African American authors
4. Perkins, Kathy A
5. African American women dramatists
6. American drama > 20th century
7. Women dramatists
8. Playwrights
9. Spence, Eulalie, 1894-1981

Call number

1. Sc MG 552

Note

1. Photographs were transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.

Source (note)

1. Kathy A. Perkins

Biography (note)

1. Eulalie Spence was born in Nevis, West Indies, on June 11, 1884. She and her family moved to New York in 1902. Ms. Spence was among the pioneer playwrights during the Harlem Renaissance and wrote fourteen plays, five of which were published. She wrote only one three act play, "The Whipping", which was optioned by Paramount Studios, but never made into a film. Several of Spence's plays won awards.

Processing action (note)

1. Accessioned
2. Cataloged

Author

1. Spence, Eulalie, 1894-1981.

Title

1. Eulalie Spence papers 1926-1991.

Biography

1. Eulalie Spence was born in Nevis, West Indies, on June 11, 1884. She and her family moved to New York in 1902. Ms. Spence was among the pioneer playwrights during the Harlem Renaissance and wrote fourteen plays, five of which were published. She wrote only one three act play, "The Whipping", which was optioned by Paramount Studios, but never made into a film. Several of Spence's plays won awards.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. Playwrights.

Added author

1. Spence, Eulalie.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 552