LibGuides: THEATRST 238: African American Theater and Performance: Rubenstein Library

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You can find other primary source materials in Duke Libraries online catalog, for example a Poster for the play Big White Fog by Theodore Ward.

Digital Public Library of America
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Nineteenth-Century American Drama: Popular Culture and Entertainment This link opens in a new window
Search for historical plays, melodramas, political satires, black minstrel shows, comic operas, musical extravaganzas, parlor entertainments in the United States from 1820-1900.
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Umbra Search African American History
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