The History Of Black Theatre

Federal Theatre Project was founded in the same year. This project is a training ground for blacks. Black community theatres began to appear in the late 1930s. Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee talents were shown during this time. “By 1940 black theatre was firmly grounded in the American Negro Theater and the Negro Playwrights’ Company.” (Encyclopedia Britannica) Black theatre rapidly grew after World War II, the radical and militant progress as well. “..the ideals of black revolution and seeking to establish a mythology and symbolism apart from white culture.” (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Plays of the 1950s were overwhelmed with racial difficulty from society. Lorraine Hansberry and many other successful blacks still manage to work on as they were downgraded.