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Inez Burke

Educator, Playwright, Youth Theatre

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Washington DC

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Willis Richardson, WEB Du Bois

Inez Burke

Inez Burke was a teacher at the primarily African American Charles Young School in Washington, D.C. She wrote "Two Races" to celebrate Negro History Week in the 1920s, originally performed by 5th grade students, and later published in "Plays and Pageants from the Life of a Negro" by Willis Richardson in 1930.

Please visit https://educatorsofcolorconference.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/27-smith.pdf for more details on Burke's work as well as plays and pageants during this time.

 Links to Information, Documents, and Materials:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44155282

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-91418-3

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/P/Plays-and-Pageants-from-the-Life-of-the-Negro

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