Resources
Below is a list of resources used in our research. This is ongoing and expanding.
Books
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Abdullah, Omanii and James V. Hatch. An Annotated Bibliography of Black Drama 1823-1977. R R Bowker Company, 1977.
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Bernard L. Peterson. The African American Theatre Directory, 1816-1960: A Comprehensive Guide to Early Black Theatre Organizations, Companies, Theatres, and Performing Groups. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1997.
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Bernard L. Peterson. Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-- 1960. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2001. ​
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Eckert, Rivka. Into Abolitionist Theatre: A Guidebook for Liberatory Theatre-making. Routledge, 2024.
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Guillaume, Bernice (ed). The Collected Works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Knupfer, Anne Meis. The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
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Mahala, Macelle. Black Theatre, City Life: African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022.
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McCaslin, Nellie. Children and Drama (second edition). New York: Longman, Inc, 1981.
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Richardson, Willis. Plays and Pageants From the Life of the Negro. [Place of publication not identified], The Associated Publishers, inc, 1930.
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Smith, Katharine Capshaw. Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance.Indiana University Press, 2004.
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Swortzell, Lowell (ed). Six Plays for Young People From the Federal Theatre Project (1936-1939). New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.​​
Archives
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​ASU Child Drama Collection/Archives. https://lib.asu.edu/collections/child-drama
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Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections & University Archives, Northwestern University
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The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago
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Karamu House Archive Collection, Case Western Reserve University. https://archivesspace.case.edu/repositories/2/resources/74
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University of Illinois Chicago Special Collections & University Archives​​
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University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center
Online Resources
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The Opposite of Absence Is “To Occupy” by Shavonne Coleman & Meriah Sage (article in Arts Praxis, https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/artspraxis/2024/volume-11-issue-2/coleman-sage-the-opposite-of-absence-is-to-occupy)
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Lost Voices in Black History, https://minttheater.org/lost-voices-in-black-history/
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The Brownies Book (Periodical, Compiled), https://www.loc.gov/item/22001351/
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The Brownies Book (Periodical Digitized), https://childlit.unl.edu/topics/edi.brownies.html
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The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk:Race and Ethnic Images in American Children's Literature, 1880-1939, https://childlit.unl.edu/index.html
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Lillian Voorhees Theatre Program Collection- List includes companies and productions, https://www.fisk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/voorhees-lilliantheatreprogramscollection.pdf
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A History of the Development of the Educational Theatre Negro Colleges and Universities From 1911 to 1959, https://repository.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1568&context=gradschool_disstheses
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African American Women Dramatists, 1930–1960 by Adrienne Macki Braconi, https://www.proquest.com/docview/2137995031/5D4C6DBB2D7E4E32PQ/6?sourcetype=Books
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Federal Theatre Project, https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/federal-theatre-project-negro-units/
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American Theatre Magazine Article: Black Theatres Across the US, 2019. (includes lists of theatres and dates), https://www.americantheatre.org/2019/02/26/black-theatres-across-the-u-s/​
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Compromise, Kwigwa Players and more: https://www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/infocompromise
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Arena Theatre: https://repository.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6610&context=gradschool_dissertations
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Arena Theatre: https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/artsentertainment/arena-players-baltimore-oldest-black-theater-in-america-turns-70/
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Shirley Graham Du Bois & Karamu House: https://scalartest.oberlincollegelibrary.org/upending-the-archive/shirley-graham-and-rowena-jeliffes-creative-partnership?path=shirley-graham-and-the-karamu-house-art-and-mentorship-synchronized-1​
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Creative Drama Handbook: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED105464.pdf
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Aduke Aremu: https://itzblacktheatre.wordpress.com/2022/01/25/raphael-moreno-interview-childrens-theatre-producer-aduke-aremu/
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​Our List of People, Orgs, and More: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10_g53rpbv1_LpFc_Tc4dSGQ3iv3zpKUKUtbO-K8IP0A/edit?gid=0#gid=0
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