A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780812418095
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thirteen-year-old Benjie is well on his way to being hooked on heroin.
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Sandwich
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Turtleback
Published: 1999-10-01
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780881032543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The life of a 13-year-old Harlem black boy, on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin addict, is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him.
Trouble in Mind
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 2022-06-21
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1636700160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A masterpiece . . . Trouble in Mind still contains astonishing power; it could have been written yesterday.” —Vulture Ahead of its time, Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debut. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran of the stage, challenges the play’s stereotypical portrayal of the Black characters, unsettling biases come to the forefront and reveal the ways so-called progressive art can be used to uphold racist attitudes. Scheduled to open on Broadway in 1957, Childress objected to the requested changes in the script that would “sanitize” the play for mainstream audiences, and the production was canceled as a result. Childress’s final script is published here with an essay by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, editor of TCG Illuminations.
Wedding Band
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9780573617690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Blacks and whites during the summer of 1918 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Selected Plays
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2011-04-19
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0810127512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A selection of five plays by twentieth-century author and actress Alice Childress, including "Florence," "Gold through the Trees," "Trouble in Mind," "Wedding Band : A Love/Hate Story in Black and White," and "Wine in the Wilderness."
Tears of a Tiger
Author: Sharon M. Draper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-07-23
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 1442489138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
Like One of the Family
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2017-01-24
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0807050741
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recommended by Entertainment Weekly The hilarious, uncompromising novel about African American domestic workers—from a trailblazer in Black women’s literature and now featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay First published in Paul Robeson’s newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge, Like One of the Family is a wry, incisive portrait of working women in Harlem in the 1950s. Rippling with satire and humor, Mildred’s outspoken accounts vividly capture her white employers’ complacency and condescension—and their startled reactions to a maid who speaks her mind and refuses to exchange dignity for pay. Upon publication the book sparked a critique of working conditions, laying the groundwork for the contemporary domestic worker movement. Although she was critically praised, Childress’s uncompromising politics and unflinching depictions of racism, classism, and sexism relegated her to the fringe of American literature. Like One of the Family has been long overlooked, but this new edition, featuring a foreword by best-selling author Roxane Gay, will introduce Childress to a new generation.
Lisa, Bright and Dark
Author: John Neufeld
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-03-22
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1504032985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Selected as one of TheNew York Times Book Review’s Best Books of the Year and honored worldwide, Lisa, Bright and Dark was an immediate sensation when it was first published. Detailing how mental illness affects friends and family of the ill, Lisa, Bright and Dark has been in print for more than forty years. Its value has not diminished over time, and readers throughout the world contact the author regularly to discuss their reactions to it. A straight-through read, it is full of romance, excitement, suspense, and finally triumph.
Just as I Am
Author: Cicely Tyson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-01-26
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0062931083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history.” –President Barack Obama, 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony “Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. I am a daughter and a mother, a sister and a friend. I am an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. I am a woman who has hurt as immeasurably as I have loved, a child of God divinely guided by his hand. And here in my ninth decade, I am a woman who, at long last, has something meaningful to say.” –Cicely Tyson
Rainbow Jordan
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 1982-06-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780380589746
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here is Rainbow Jordan: too brave to be a child, too scared to be a woman. "Powerful, eloquent, revealing...the memory of this exceptional heroine is likely to linger a long time."
