Becoming Something

Becoming Something
Author: Mona Z. Smith
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780571211425


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A former investigative reporter for The Miami Herald reconstructs the largely forgotten life of Canada Lee, a famous black actor, civil rights advocate, and political activist, who was "blacklisted" and buried in the anti-Communist backlash of the McCarthy era.


Becoming Something
Language: en
Pages: 430
Authors: Mona Z. Smith
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

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A former investigative reporter for The Miami Herald reconstructs the largely forgotten life of Canada Lee, a famous black actor, civil rights advocate, and pol
Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee
Language: en
Pages: 660
Authors: Mona Z. Smith
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-22 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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The first biography of the great black actor, activist, athlete--and tragic victim of the blacklist Imagine an actor as familiar to audiences as Denzel Washingt
Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography
Language: en
Pages: 609
Authors: Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher:

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The Harlem Renaissance is the best known and most widely studied cultural movement in African American history. Now, in Harlem Renaissance Lives, esteemed schol
American Biography
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Carl Rollyson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-22 - Publisher: iUniverse

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This collection of reviews, selected from Rollyson's New York Sun column, is as much about the romance of biography as it is about the American lives. Certain c
The Civil Rights Theatre Movement in New York, 1939–1966
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Julie Burrell
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-27 - Publisher: Springer

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This book argues that African American theatre in the twentieth century represented a cultural front of the civil rights movement. Highlighting the frequently i