Playscripts collection

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unitid

{"value"=>"21117", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Sc MG 531", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"b14303872", "type"=>"local_b"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Playscripts collection"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"12 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"5.0 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}

repository

{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}

langmaterial

{"value"=>"English"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p> The Playscripts collection is composed of plays acquired from a variety of sources and includes plays donated by the playwrights and actors who performed in the plays, as well as those purchased from dealers. It is represented by authors like Theodore Ward (<span class=\"title\">Our Lan'</span>), Zora Neale Hurston (<span class=\"title\">The Fiery Chariot</span>); James Baldwin (<span class=\"title\">Blues for Mr. Charlie</span>); Owen Dodson (<span class=\"title\">Til Victory Is Won</span>); Amiri Baraka (<span class=\"title\">Black Mass</span>); and Ruby Berkley Goodwin (<span class=\"title\">Mutiny at Port Chicago</span>). The collection contains both published and unpublished playscripts.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

arrangement

{"value"=>"<p>Arranged first alphabetically by author's last name, then by title.</p>"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Gifts and purchases, ca. 1985-2018.</p>"}

processinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Cataloged by B. Turabian, March 1999.</p>"}

extent_statement

5.0 linear feet (12 boxes)

prefercite

{"value"=>"[Item], Playscripts collection, Sc MG 531, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>" The Playscripts collection is composed of plays acquired from a variety of sources and includes plays donated by the playwrights and actors who performed in the plays, as well as those purchased from dealers. It is represented by authors like Theodore Ward (<span class=\"title\">Our Lan'</span>), Zora Neale Hurston (<span class=\"title\">The Fiery Chariot</span>); James Baldwin (<span class=\"title\">Blues for Mr. Charlie</span>); Owen Dodson (<span class=\"title\">Til Victory Is Won</span>); Amiri Baraka (<span class=\"title\">Black Mass</span>); and Ruby Berkley Goodwin (<span class=\"title\">Mutiny at Port Chicago</span>). The collection contains both published and unpublished playscripts.", "generated"=>true}

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1. Alison, Hughes. The Trial of Dr. Beck
2. Baldwin, James [2/1]
3. Baraka, Amiri [3/1]
4. Barnes, Forrest. Good-Bye Uncle Tom
5. Blair, Jon and Norman Fenton. The Biko Inquest
6. Boretz, Alan [2/1]
7. Boyd, Lamar II. A Touch of Turkey and a Taste of Grace
8. Brooks, David V. Blackpoemology: Men of Colour in Transitory Stages
9. Carlson, Raymond C. Don't Call Me Boy
10. Chinyelu, Mamadou. It Takes a Whole Village
11. Corcoran, Robert John. This Way to Me
12. Craighead, Verna [2/1]
13. Cruse, Harold W. Headline Hetty (2 versions)
14. Cullen, Countee. Byword for Evil
15. Day, Gerry. My Name Is Jemal
16. Dodson, Owen. 'Til Victory Is Won (signed)
17. Dolph, Laphin Jack. Double Exposure or It's Nice Work if You Can Get It
18. Douglass, Charles. De Obeah Mon
19. Duberman, Martin B. In White America
20. Fanning, Nathaniel [5/1]
21. Federal Theatre's Mendell script
22. Feldshuh, David. Miss Evers' Boys
23. Franklin, Wendi Joy. A Song for You...The Civil Rights Journey of a Negro Woman: Lena Calhoun Horne
24. Gale, Lorena. Angelique
25. Gilfond, Henry [10/1]
26. Gilman. Drowning Creek revision
27. Goldberg, Mel. Stay 'Till Morning
28. Goodwin, Ruby Berkley. Mutiny at Port Chicago
29. Gribble, Harry W. Almost Faithful
30. Hansberry, Lorraine. Les Blancs, final text adapted by Robert Nemiroff
31. Harburg, E. Y. and Fred Saidy. Finian's Rainbow, revised
32. Hark, Mildred and Noel McQueen. George Washington Carver
33. Heyliger, Yvette. Homegirl
34. Hill, Errol. Dance Bongo (signed)
35. Holmes, Gary. Trav'lin
36. Hunter, Eddie and Earle Sweeting. The Lady
37. Jackson, Arthur. Never Bogey a Par Three
38. Johnson, Hall. Fi-yer
39. Joseph, Jamal [3/1]
40. Kamara, David K. The Roman Disease or (Fly Black Bird Blues)
41. Mayfield, Julian. Fount of the Nation
42. Micheaux, Oscar. The Case of Mrs. Wingate
43. Millen, James Knox. No Hidin' Place
44. Mitchell, Loften [13/1]
45. Morrock, Richard. TNT (Tricephalous Neurosyllogistic Training)
46. Neal, Larry. The Glorious Monster in the Bell of the Horn
47. Newton, E. C. Darktown Silhouettes
48. Norford, George. Head of the Family
49. Owens, Major R. Thomas and Sally
50. Peterson, Louis [2/1]
51. Rattner, Bonnie Lee Moss. To Gleam It Around, to Show My Shine
52. Rohlehr, Lloyd. We Are Free!
53. Sawyer, Robert Earl. A Race with the Wind
54. Robinson, S. Garrett [3/1]
55. Sherman, Susan. Shango de Ima
56. Sherriff, R. C. Miss Mabel
57. Soyinka, Wole. Death and the Kings' Horsemen
58. Thompson, Eloise Bibb. Africanus
59. Untitled play (unknown author)
60. Wadud, Ali [4/1]
61. Ward, Theodore [6/1]
62. Watkins, Maurine. Marshland
63. Weston, Mark [6/1]
64. Whiteley, Jerry and John Voorhees. Leah (incomplete)
65. Willis, Moxley Waldo [2/1]
66. Yordan, Philip. Anna Lucasta
67. Jubilee: A Cavalcade of the Negro Theater