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Charles Edward Gordone (October 12, 1925 – November 16, 1995) was an American playwright, actor, director, and educator. He was the first African American to win the annual Pulitzer Prize for Drama and he devoted much of his professional life to the pursuit of multi-racial American theater and racial unity.
24 de feb. de 2021 · Learn about the life and legacy of Charles Gordone, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a beloved professor at Texas A&M University. Discover how his works explored the struggles of Black Americans and promoted racial unity in American theatre.
19 de nov. de 1995 · Charles Gordone, who pioneered a polemical form of race-conscious theater with a blistering drama that made him the first black playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize, died Friday at his home in ...
25 de feb. de 2021 · Through his works as an actor, playwright, and professor, the late Charles Gordone was able to educate people across the country about Black Americans’ struggle for equality. Gordone, who joined the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University in 1987, was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
In NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY a black bartender in New York City attempts to outwit a white mobster syndicate. The play received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Charles Gordone’s Pulitzer signified two firsts: he was the first African American playwright to receive a Pulitzer, and NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY was the first Off-Broadway play to ...
6 de may. de 2015 · Charles Gordone 1925-1995. Gordone is best known for his 1969 play, No Place to Be Somebody, the first drama by an African American writer to win a Pulitzer prize and the first play ever to win...
30 de oct. de 2017 · One African-American writer and actor who opposed the Black Arts Movement was Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Charles Gordone. Gordone was born Charles Fleming in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 12, 1925.
