Black History

Joyce Green MacDonald shares the history of four Black women Shakespeareans who took to the American stage from 1821 – 1960: The African Grove Theatre’s “Miss Welsh,” Henrietta Vinton Davis, Adrienne McNeil Herndon, and Jane White.

Theater played a significant role in the blossoming of Black American arts and culture of the 1920s and ’30s. Scholar Freda Scott Giles tells us how the artists and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance regarded the Bard.