Blacks in the performing arts.
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Blacks and the Washington D.C. ballet / Claire Haywood; interviewed by Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan.
Hosts Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan interview Claire Haywood (d. 1978), artistic director of the Capitol Ballet Company, and co-founder, with Doris Jones, of the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet. The Jones-Haywood school, was founded in 1941 to give minority children an opportunity to study classical ballet at a time when opportunities were limited for African-American…
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Black theater compared / Gloria Oden, Val Grey Warren, and Mike Hodge.
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Tribute to Paul Robeson / produced by Charles Hobson.
Note on box: His songs and thoughts. WBAI Folio notes, April 9, 1968, p. 8: On the occasion of Mr. Robeson’s seventieth birthday, we present a tribute to the athlete, actor, singer and extraordinary man. As we go to press—in February—we don’t have all the details but the program promises to be an important one.…
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Getting around : salute to Syvilla Fort.
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The Lafayette theatre.