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    The American Negro Theatre (ANT) was co-founded on June 5, 1940 by playwright Abram Hill and actor Frederick O'Neal. Determined to build a "people's theatre"...
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  • The American Society of Magical Negroes is a 2024 American comedy-drama film starring Justice Smith as a young man who joins a clandestine group of magical...
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  • The Magical Negro is a trope in American cinema, television, and literature. In the cinema of the United States, the Magical Negro is a supporting stock...
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  • Abram Hill (category African-American dramatists and playwrights)
    Hill's most fundamental accomplishment was his part in founding American Negro Theater (ANT) alongside Frederick O'Neal, and members of the McClendon Players...
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    Frederick O'Neal (category 20th-century American male actors)
    25, 1992) was an American actor, theater producer and television director. He founded the American Negro Theater, the British Negro Theatre, and was the...
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  • American Negro Academy American Negro Ballet Company American Negro Labor Congress American Negro Theater American Slavery As It Is American Society of African...
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    African-American theater. Frederick O'Neal and Abram Hill founded ANT, or the American Negro Theater, the most renowned African-American theater group of...
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  • Matthew Del Negro (born August 2, 1972) is an American actor. Matthew Del Negro was born in Mount Kisco, New York, as the youngest of three children....
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  • Will Mastin Trio (category American vocal groups)
    Ruth Attaway and Jane White, and Frederick O'Neal who founded the American Negro Theater. The network couldn't get a sponsor, so the show was dropped. Among...
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    the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. The movement also included the new African-American cultural...
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  • Helen Martin (category American television actresses)
    study acting with the WPA Theater and the Rose McClendon Players. She was a founding member of the American Negro Theater in Harlem. Martin became a...
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    Harry Belafonte (category 20th-century American male actors)
    which a tenant gave him, as a gratuity, two tickets to see the American Negro Theater. He fell in love with the art form and befriended Sidney Poitier...
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    Sidney Poitier (category Use American English from January 2022)
    role in an American Negro Theatre production, the same company he failed his first audition with. Poitier joined the American Negro Theater but was rejected...
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  • Earle Hyman (category 20th-century American male actors)
    a teenager in 1943 in Run, Little Chillun, and later joined the American Negro Theater. The following year, Hyman began a two-year run playing the role...
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  • Frances Taylor Davis (category American female dancers)
    African Americans during that time. The cast included actresses Ruth Attaway and Jane White, and Frederick O'Neal who founded the American Negro Theater. They...
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    Ruth Attaway and Jane White, and Frederick O'Neal, who founded the American Negro Theater. The network could not get a sponsor, so the show was dropped. In...
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    Isabel Sanford (category 20th-century American actresses)
    at amateur night at The Apollo Theater. After graduating high school, Sanford joined Harlem's American Negro Theater and The Star Players. She made her...
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  • Fourmis or The Ants, a series of French novels by Bernard Werber American Negro Theater, formed in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City...
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    African-American musical theater includes late 19th- and early 20th-century musical theater productions by African Americans in New York City and Chicago...
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  • Philip Yordan (category American male screenwriters)
    Polish American family and titled Anna Lucasta. Later he found out that Abram Hill had rewritten the same play for the American Negro Theater in New York...
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    Sing" was communally sung within Black American communities, while the NAACP began to promote the hymn as a "Negro national anthem" in 1917 (with the term...
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  • with Heidi Rodewald and members of The Negro Problem. Stew is Professor of the Practice of Musical Theater Writing at Harvard University. Post Minstrel...
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    The Negro Motorist Green Book (also, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or Green-Book) was a guidebook for African American roadtrippers. It was founded...
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    The American Negro Exposition, also known as the Black World's Fair and the Diamond Jubilee Exposition, was a world's fair held in Chicago from July until...
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    Hilda Simms (category 20th-century African-American women singers)
    to New York, acting in radio dramas and becoming a member of the American Negro Theater, where she gained professional acting experience. There she worked...
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    Harlem (category African-American culture)
    Suitcase Theater, The Negro Playwrights, American Negro Theater, and the Rose McClendon Players. The Apollo Theater opened on 125th Street on January 26,...
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  • Lap Chi Chu (category American people of Chinese descent)
    Award for his lighting of The Good Negro. Source: Chinese people in New York City "Lap Chi Chu". UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Retrieved...
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  • Anita Bush, a pioneer in African American theater, began an acting company after seeing a show at the Lincoln Theater in Harlem. She wanted an all-Black...
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  • The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional...
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  • William Greaves (category African-American film directors)
    out to pursue a career in theater. Starting as a dancer, he eventually moved into acting, working in the American Negro Theater. In 1948, Greaves joined...
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