Flournoy Miller -- 16 Broadway Credits; Entertainer, Actor, Lyricist, Producer, Playwright; Seminal Figure in the Development of African American Musical Theatre on Broadway
Canada Lee -- 19 Broadway Credits (from 1934 - 1948); Pioneering African American Actor of Stage, Film, and Radio; Champion of Civil Rights; Blacklisted by HUAC and passed away at the
age of 45
Rex Ingram -- 13 Broadway Credits; Stage, Film, and TV Actor
Fredi Washington -- 8 Broadway Credits; Stage and Film Actor, Performer, Writer, Civil Rights Activist; Co-Founder of the Negro Actors Guild of America; Prominent Member of the 1920's
Harlem Renaissance
Katherine Dunham -- 9 Broadway Credits; Dancer, Choreographer, Author, Educator, Social Activist; Queen Mother of Black Dance
Also, Todd Duncan, Anne Brown, Butterfly McQueen, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Adelaide Hall, Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, and so many others.
Three theaters are not enough to recognize the monumental contributions actors of color have made to Broadway theatre over the last century! |
