Black Theater: The Drama Review, Volume 12, Number 4: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A paperback journal with black cover, The Drama Review: Volume 12, Number 4. The subtitle of this volume is Black Theater. The front cover is black with white text and illustration. At the top of the cover is the masthead with the publication’s subtitle [BLACK / THEATRE] with the title of the publication [tdr / the drama review] in a white outlined block in the lower right corner of the subtitle. Below the masthead is a black and white illustration of a poster covering the text of a billing block. The poster illustration features a silhouette of a man holding a shotgun on the upper left quadrant. In the upper third of the poster is black text in a mix of typeface and handwritten style text: [THE / BLACK / ARTS / ALLIANCE / PRESENTS / A BENEFIT FOR / THE BLACK PANTHER / PARTYFOR SELF DEFENSE / THURSDAY MAY 25 /8:00PM / FILLMORE AUDITORIUM / 1805 GEARY BLVD. / SAN FRANCISCO]. The bottom third of the poster features the text [SPEAKERS] followed by the names of the following individuals [HUEY P. NEWTON / MINISTER OF DEFENSE / FOR B.P.P.S.D], [LeRoi Jones/ [---?] / [---?]], [Stokley Carmichael / FORMER CHAIRMAN / OF SNCC] [PLUS / BLAX DRAMA AND MUSIC / [---?] /[---?]]. In the bottom right corner of the front cover in white text is [$2.00 15s]. The spine is black with white text at the spine head that reads [tdr/the drama review] and [new york university T40] at the spine foot. The back cover features an advertisement for Century Theatre Lighting. The book is one hundred and eighty pages long. Inscription in pencil on the page preceding the table of contents.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1968
• Published by: Tisch School of the Arts, American, founded 1965
• Edited by: Ed Bullins, American, born 1935
• Subject of: Dr. Huey P. Newton, American, 1942 - 1989
• Subject of: Amiri Baraka, American, 1934 - 2014
• Subject of: Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian American, 1941 - 1998
• Type: journals (periodicals)
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 10 × 6 7/8 × 1/2 in. (25.4 × 17.5 × 1.3 cm)
• Place printed: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Black power
• Topic: Drama (Theatre)
• Topic: Literature
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: Social reform
• Object number: 2015.64.6
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kathleen M. Kendrick
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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