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Charles Edward Fleming was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Charles and Camille Fleming ( née Morgan), of African, Native American, and European heritage. He grew up in Elkhart, Indiana, with two brothers, Jack and Stanley, and a sister, Shirley. He attended Elkhart High School. [4]
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.
No Place to Be Somebody is a 1969 play written by American playwright Charles Gordone. It was during his employment as a bartender in Greenwich Village that Gordone found the inspiration for his first major work, No Place to Be Somebody, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
- Allan Lewis, Charles Gordone
- 1969
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. In 1927, his mother moved with her children to Elkhart, Indiana. By 1931, she married, changing Charles Fleming’s name to Charles Gordon.
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 ...
May 6, 2015 · Charles Gordone's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama [No Place to Be Somebody] depicts the black experience, but it is also concerned with people, black and white, who are filled with despair but...
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