Flier for a reception for Dr. Herbert Aptheker hosted by The North Star Players: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A flier for a benefit reception honoring historian Dr. Herbert Aptheker hosted by the North Star Players theater company to benefit the South African Resistance Movement. Printed in black ink on off-white paper, large text at the top reads [THE NORTH STAR PLAYERS / PRESENT / “A Milestone On The Road / To Truth” / A CULTURAL RECEPTION / IN HONOR OF / DR. HERBERT APTHEKER / HISTORIAN]. The flier also gives the date, time, and place information along with a listing of the theater group members: Beulah Richardson, Alice Childress, Mary Lou Patterson, Leon Bibb, Sydney Poitier, Christopher Alves, Clarice Taylor, Bill Robinson, and Fred Collins. Along the bottom is small text advising [FOR TICKETS CALL – NORTH STAR PLAYERS – Lorraine 5-6740]. The back is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: likely 1953
• Created by: The North Star Players, American, active early 1950s
• Subject of: Herbert Aptheker, 1915 - 2003
• Subject of: Beah Richards, American, 1920 - 2000
• Subject of: Alice Childress, American, 1912 - 1994
• Subject of: Sidney Poitier, Bahamian American, 1927 - 2022
• Subject of: Leon Bibb, American, born 1922
• Subject of: Lorraine Hansberry, American, 1930 - 1965
• Owned by: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011
• Type: fliers (printed matter)
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
• Place used: Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Social reform
• Topic: Theatre
• Topic: Theatre companies
• Topic: U.S. History, 1945-1953
• Topic: United States History
• Object number: 2013.188.18
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of William and James Thomas and family in memory of Clarice Taylor
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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