Black Theatre in the Civil Rights Era with Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. | Left of Black #SHORTS @FranklinHumanities

Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

What was the role of Black theatre companies and playwrights in pushing the Civil Rights Movement forward and resisting the call for "patience" from some who thought Blacks were demanding too much change in society? Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. talks about his new book, "Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation," published by @NYUPressOnline.

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Directed and edited by Eric Barstow.

Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.

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