A 6-8 page essay plus bibliography. (CHOOSE ONE OF THE Following TOPICS)
Please cite all the materials you consult in your bibliography. YOU MUST DEVELOP AN ORIGINAL ARGUMENT that you sustain throughout the paper. At the top of your essay (just under the title) please state your argument. Then begin the essay bringing the argument back into the opening paragraph.
1. Compare and contrast the careers of Ira Aldridge, Bert Williams and Paul Robeson as major performers in African-American theater history. What conclusions can you draw about conditions for black actors? How did conditions change and/or remain the same over the timeframe spanned by these actors’ careers?
• Herbert Marshall, Ira Aldridge: Negro Tragedian
• Mary Malone, Actor in Exile: The Life of Ira Aldridge
• Northwestern Special Collection on Ira Aldridge
• Eric Ledell Smith, Bert Williams : A Biography of the Pioneer Black Comedian
• Mabel Rowland, Bert Williams, Son of Laughter
• Ann Charters, Nobody: The Story of Bert Williams
• Martin Duberman, Paul Robeson: A Biography
• Burnham Holmes, Paul Robeson: A Voice of Struggle
• Patricia McKissack, et al, Paul Robeson: A Voice to Remember
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