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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 · Charles Gordone was a Pulitzer Prize award winning playwright, beloved professor, and champion of diversity at Texas A&M University. The late Charles Gordone, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, came to the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University in 1987.
Dec 16, 2007 · Charles Gordone won an Obie (an award given to off-Broadway productions) for his performance in an all-black production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men in 1964. Between acting and directing jobs, Gordone worked as a waiter in a Greenwich Village tavern.
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...
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.
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 ...
Charles Gordone was born on October 12, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. Born Charles Edward Fleming, he took the sur name Gordon when his mother remarried. When he was two years old, he and his family moved to his mother’s hometown of Elkhart, Indiana.
