Alice Childress (1920-1994) is an author whose writing is characterized by its frank treatment of racial issues. Because her books and plays often deal with such subjects as miscegenation and teenage ...
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Alice Childress was born 12 October 1920 in Charleston, South Carolina, but grew up in Harlem where she attended grade school and two years of high school. Her grandmother, a great storyteller, first ...
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In Alice Childress's Like One of the Family ... Conversations from a Domestic's Life (1956), Mildred, the main character, is a sassy, defiant day worker who fights for civil rights and human dignity, ...
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In an interview with Roberta S. Maguire conducted the year before she died and published the year after, Alice Childress commented on why throughout her career as a playwright, one that spanned more t...
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Alice Childress
Alice Childress