Childress, Alice.

  • Alice Childress interview and reading (Part 2 only)

    Alice Childress reads from her novel “A Short Walk” (Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1979) and talks with Wesley Brown about the political and social climate for African-American writers and playwrights in the 1940s and 1950s. Produced by Wesley Brown. This is part 2 of 2, part 1 is missing.

  • The Negro woman in American literature (Episode 2, Part 2 of 2)

    This program from the April conference held at New York’s New School is a discussion of the Negro woman in America and in American literature. Participants are poet Sarah Wright, playwright Alice Childress, singer and actress Abbey Lincoln, novelist Paule Marshall and poet Sterling A. Brown. New School/WBAI. Part 2 of 2.

  • Six women playwrights / produced by Lin Harris. (Part 2 of 2)

    Readings by Corinne Jacker, Myrna Lamb, Ruth Wolff, Tina Howe, Alice Childress, and Honor Moore. Recorded live on May 8, 1977. Produced by Lin Harris.

  • The Negro woman in American literature (Episode 2 of 12)

    This program from the “Negro Writer’s Vision of America” conference held April 23-25, 1965 at New York’s New School is a discussion of the Negro woman in America and in American literature. Participants are poet Sarah Wright, playwright Alice Childress, singer and actress Abbey Lincoln, novelist Paule Marshall and poet Sterling A. Brown. This is…

  • Not bread alone : a conference on workers culture / producedby Moe Foner.

    Recorded highlights from a conference which features people from unions, schools, colleges, the arts, as well as community groups. |Keynote address / Barbara Ehrenreich — panel on film / Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Jacqueline Shearer — panel on literature / E.L. Doctorow, Alice Childress, Helen Yglesias — Art and working people / Ralph Fasanella —…

  • Six women playwrights / produced by Lin Harris

    Six women playwrights, Corinne Jacker, Myrna Lamb, Ruth Wolff, Tina Howe, Alice Childress, and Honor Moore, read live at the Manhattan Theater Club on May 8, 1977. The evening’s program is introduced by Janet Sternberg, producer of the poetry series at the Manhattan Theater Club. Honor Moore, editor of “The New Women’s Theatre: Ten Plays…