§16§This book argues that African American theatre in the twentieth century represented a cultural front of the civil rights movement. Highlighting the frequently ignored decades of the 1940s and 1950s, Burrell documents a radical cohort of theatre artists who became critical players in the fight for civil rights both onstage and offstage, between the Popular Front and the Black Arts Movement periods. §04§§Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Negro People's Theatre and the Emergence of the Civil Rights Theatre Movement.- Chapter 3: "An American Dilemma": Dramas of the Returning Negro Soldier.- Chapter 4: Rescripting the Negro Problem: The Cold War-Civil Rights Play.- Chapter 5: "To Be a Man": Progressive Masculinities in Lorraine Hansberry's Cold War-Civil Rights Plays.- Chapter 6: Alice Childress's §13§§"The Civil Rights Theatre Movement should be on the reading list of any scholar interested in civil rights culture, the history of American theatre in the 20th century, or the history of radicalism in the United States." (Madeline Steiner, gothamcenter.org, February 23, 2021)§ §02§§Julie Burrell is an Assistant Professor of English and Black Studies at Cleveland State University, USA. She has published in
