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American Negro Theatre Alumni collection.

Title
  1. American Negro Theatre Alumni collection.
Published by
  1. 1987.
Author
  1. American Negro Theatre. Alumni Committee

Collection information

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Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.

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Details

Description
  1. 0.67 linear feet (2 boxes)
Summary
  1. This collection includes material gathered for an exhibition that would tell the story of the ANT and the achievements of its various performers. This material, sent by various alumni, includes such as updated resumes, programs, photographs, and press clippings.
Subject
  1. Briggs-Hall, Austin
  2. Burrows, Vinie
  3. Carter, Dorothy
  4. Childress, Alice
  5. Dee, Ruby
  6. Evans, Chickie
  7. Glanville, Maxwell, 1918-1992
  8. Greaves, William
  9. Haynes, Hilda, 1912-1986
  10. Henderson, Vickie
  11. Jeannette, Gertrude, 1914-2018
  12. Leyba, Claire
  13. O'Neal, Frederick, 1905-1992
  14. Pichard, Juanita B
  15. Richardson, Virgil, 1916-2004
  16. Rowan, Pearl
  17. Thomas, Franklin (Actor)
  18. Trotman, James
  19. Trotman, Olive Tucker
  20. Truesdale, Ted
  21. Wallace, Emmett Babe, 1909-2006
  22. Wilbur, James (Actor)
  23. American Negro Theatre
  24. American Negro Theatre -- History
  25. New York Public Library. 135th Street Branch
  26. Acting -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York
  27. African American actors
  28. African American theater
  29. African Americans in the performing arts
  30. African American actors -- New York (State) -- New York
  31. African American theater -- New York (State) -- New York
  32. African Americans in the performing arts -- New York (State) -- New York
  33. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
Genre/Form
  1. Clippings (information artifacts)
  2. Photographs.
  3. Programs (documents)
  4. Résumés (personnel records)
Call number
  1. Sc MG 515
Location of other archival materials (note)
  1. American Negro Theatre records, Sc MG 70, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture American Negro Theatre scrapbook, Sc MG 363, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Biography (note)
  1. This collection was created by the American Negro Theatre Alumni Committee as part of the 1986 fundraising campaign for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The campaign led to the opening of the expanded Schomburg Center complex that houses the renovated basement theater (the former 135th Street Branch Library, now known as the Landmark Building), which housed the ANT for several years.
  2. The American Negro Theatre (ANT) co-founded by Frederick O'Neal and Abram Hill, was established to provide Black actors, playwrights, directors, and other theater-related professionals with opportunities to work in productions that illustrated the diversity of Black life. ANT's program was essentially divided into three categories: stage productions, a training program, and radio programs.
  3. From 1940-1949, nineteen plays, twelve of them original, were produced by ANT. On Striver's Row, Walk Hard--Talk Loud, (both written by Hill), and Rain were well-received plays. However, commercial success struck with Philip Yordan's Anna Lucasta. ANT also exhibited the talents of several now well-known actors and actresses, some for the first time, including Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Alvin and Alice Childress, Hilda Simms, Earl Hyman, Isabel Sanford, Vinie Burroughs, Helen Martin, Roger Furman, Maxwell Glanville, Clarice Taylor, Gordon Heath, and Hilda Hayes.
  4. For the first five years (1940-1945), ANT was housed in the basement of the 135th Street Branch Library of the New York Public Library, known as the "Harlem Library Little Theatre". In 1945, ANT moved to the Elks Lodge at 15 West 126th Street, which was renamed the American Negro Theatre Playhouse. In 1950, ANT made its final move to a loft on West 125th Street, and according to O'Neal, officially went out of business a year later.
Processing action (note)
  1. Processing Information: Accessioned by Diana Lachatanere in 1993-1994.
Author
  1. American Negro Theatre. Alumni Committee.
Title
  1. American Negro Theatre Alumni collection.
Production
  1. 1987.
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. sheet
Biography
  1. This collection was created by the American Negro Theatre Alumni Committee as part of the 1986 fundraising campaign for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The campaign led to the opening of the expanded Schomburg Center complex that houses the renovated basement theater (the former 135th Street Branch Library, now known as the Landmark Building), which housed the ANT for several years.
Location of other archival materials
  1. American Negro Theatre records, Sc MG 70, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture American Negro Theatre scrapbook, Sc MG 363, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Biography
  1. The American Negro Theatre (ANT) co-founded by Frederick O'Neal and Abram Hill, was established to provide Black actors, playwrights, directors, and other theater-related professionals with opportunities to work in productions that illustrated the diversity of Black life. ANT's program was essentially divided into three categories: stage productions, a training program, and radio programs.
  2. From 1940-1949, nineteen plays, twelve of them original, were produced by ANT. On Striver's Row, Walk Hard--Talk Loud, (both written by Hill), and Rain were well-received plays. However, commercial success struck with Philip Yordan's Anna Lucasta. ANT also exhibited the talents of several now well-known actors and actresses, some for the first time, including Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Alvin and Alice Childress, Hilda Simms, Earl Hyman, Isabel Sanford, Vinie Burroughs, Helen Martin, Roger Furman, Maxwell Glanville, Clarice Taylor, Gordon Heath, and Hilda Hayes.
  3. For the first five years (1940-1945), ANT was housed in the basement of the 135th Street Branch Library of the New York Public Library, known as the "Harlem Library Little Theatre". In 1945, ANT moved to the Elks Lodge at 15 West 126th Street, which was renamed the American Negro Theatre Playhouse. In 1950, ANT made its final move to a loft on West 125th Street, and according to O'Neal, officially went out of business a year later.
Processing action
  1. Processing Information: Accessioned by Diana Lachatanere in 1993-1994.
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Research call number
  1. Sc MG 515
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