{"value"=>"<p>There were a number of studies written about Childress, her writing and the influence she had on the work of contemporary writers. This subseries contains a few of those studies along with biographical information collected by biographical references works and interviews conducted by scholars. This set of files represents a cross-section of writings about Childress and her work including interviews, critical papers, a dissertation (<span class=\"title\">In Praise of African- American Women: Female Images in the Plays of Alice Childress</span> by Barbara Rothman Vojta) and biographical sketches. Some files also include correspondence with Childress. Among the items found here are papers such as \"Embracing Heritage in Alice Childress's <span class=\"title\">Wedding Band</span>\", by Roberta Maguire; \"Self-Knowledge as the Ultimate Female Subjectivity: The Plays of Terry, Childress, and Howe\", Susan Koppelman; and \"æAlice Childress's <span class=\"title\">Wine in the Wilderness'\"</span>, by Gayle Austin, which was included in <span class=\"title\">Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism: Paying Her Attention</span>. Other notable papers include \"The Artist as Activist: The Views of Alice Childress\", by Betsy R. Spratt, which was part of a master's project that identified the creative activism of women in various fields. This manuscript is heavily annotated by Childress.</p> <p>Transcriptions of interviews found here include an 18-page transcription of an interview conducted by Shirley M. Jordan for her book, <span class=\"title\">Broken Silences: Interviews with Black and White Women Writers</span>. Writer/historian Martin Duberman's transcribed interview with Childress for his biography, <span class=\"title\">Paul Robeson</span>, is also in this file.</p> <p>Many of these documents have been annotated by Childress. Notable is a brief sketch of Childress by Paul Robeson, \"About Alice Childress\", which may have been intended as the introduction to the first edition of <span class=\"title\">Like One of the Family</span> but was not included in the 1956 edition. Two years after Childress's death, a symposium in her honor entitled \"The Life and Work of Alice Childress\", was held at the Third Annual National Symposium on African American Theatre, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, October 25-26, 1996. The symposium featured contributions by theatre historian Samuel A. Hay, playwrights Addell Austin Anderson and William Branch, with music by her husband, Nathan Woodard. A program from that event is filed here.</p>"}