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Milburn Davis plays

Title
Milburn Davis plays, 1969-1970.
Author
Davis, Milburn.
Supplementary Content
Finding aid

Details

Additional Authors
  • Davis, Milburn.
  • Frank Silvera Writers Workshop.
Found In
c2pc Frank Silvera Writers Workshop. Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A93.
Description
4
Summary
Collection includes photocopies of four play scripts.
Donor/Sponsor
Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources for African and African Diasporan Studies Access Project.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Scripts.
  • Plays.
Terms of Use (note)
  • Photocopying requires prior permission from Frank Silvera Writers Workshop.
Source (note)
  • Frank Silvera Writers Workshop
Biography (note)
  • Playwright, actor, freelance writer, newspaper reporter, and public relations director.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms a part of: Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. See collection record for more information.
Processing Action (note)
  • Cataloged
Call Number
Sc MG 64
OCLC
NYPW97-A169
Author
Davis, Milburn.
Title
Milburn Davis plays, 1969-1970.
Terms Of Use
Photocopying requires prior permission from Frank Silvera Writers Workshop.
Linking Entry
Forms a part of: Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. See collection record for more information.
Biography
Playwright, actor, freelance writer, newspaper reporter, and public relations director. Davis was educated at the U.S. Armed Forces Institute, majoring in journalism, newswriting, and public relations, 1959. He studied English and sociology at Morgan State College, 1967; public relations at Pace College, 1969; and acting at the Negro Ensemble Company, and the New Lafayette Theater. Davis has been working as a freelance writer, since 1969; staff writer with Time magazine, 1962-65; copy editor with the Afro-American newspapers, 1965-67; reporter for the New York Post and the Baltimore News American, 1965-67. He performed as an actor with the Black Magicians of the New Lafayett Theater (1969-73) where he also played roles in two of his own plays. Since 1959 he has published numerous short stories in different popular magazines. He is the winner of second and third prizes in the U.S. Armed Forces short story contest, 1958. He is a member of the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop in New York City.
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Finding aid
Added Author
Davis, Milburn. Sometimes a switchblade helps.
Davis, Milburn. $100,000 nigger.
Davis, Milburn. You can take the nigger out of the country, but...
Davis, Milburn. Nightmare.
Davis, Milburn. Black rage in suburbia.
Frank Silvera Writers Workshop.
Found In:
c2pc Frank Silvera Writers Workshop. Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A93.
Research Call Number
Sc MG 64
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