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In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship’s steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan’s West Side. It catered to black New Yorkers, who were barred admittance to whites-only venues offering drama, music, and refreshment. Over the following two years, Brown expanded his enterprises, founding a series of theaters that featured African Americans playing a range of roles unprecedented on the American stage and that drew increasingly integrated audiences. Marvin McAllister explores Brown’s pioneering career and places his theatrical experiments within the broader context of American social, political, and cultural history. He reveals how each of Brown’s ventures–the African Grove, the Mino [Read More...]
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(…). If you actually read the book then you would realize that the title was actually on a sign at William Brown’s theater, a theater created for blacks in a time when we were not allowed admittance to musical or dramatic performances. It also allowed black performers to develop their art and show that we were not just silly “minstrels” or clowns.
I am very proud to have the William Brown Theater as a part of my African American heritage!