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  1. 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]

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

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  8. 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.