Self
A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.
Sister Jenkins
An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Theo
A trio of runaway slaves evade authorities in the Old West.
Old Lady
ニューヨーク警官も一目置く、腕利き黒人私立探偵シャフト。ある日、彼は黒人街ハーレムのボス、バンピーから、愛娘マーシーの救出を依頼される。誘拐したのはシャフトの旧友ベンだという。ベンは黒人解放過激グループのボスになっていたのだ。現在のベンを知らないシャフトは、疑心暗鬼のまま操作を開始。ようやくベンの組織の集会所を探し出した時、突然の機関銃掃射を受ける！ベンとともに逃げ延びたシャフト…。彼の執拗な捜査によって、事件は意外な結末へと動き始める。
Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted by Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry's widower, and directed by Gene Frankel.
Mrs. Dawson
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
