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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.
Feb 24, 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.
Dec 16, 2007 · Learn about the life and achievements of Charles Gordone, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play No Place to Be Somebody. Find out how he became an actor, director, and playwright, and how he used theatre as a tool for social change.
Nov 19, 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 ...
Feb 25, 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.
Charles Gordone 1925–1995. Playwright, actor. The first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize for drama was Charles Gordone in 1970 for the dramatic work No Place To Be Somebody. Gordone took the theater world by storm and brought a new type of race consciousness to the stage.
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Oct 30, 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.
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