Black Heroes in Monologues

"When Gus Edwards discovered that the majority of the young actors, playwrights, and teachers he encountered didn't know who Nat Turner was - nor many other key men and women in black history - he summoned the power of theatre to correct the situation. Black Heroes in Monologues brings these and other influential African Americans to life once again."--BOOK JACKET.

Introduction

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Alberta Hunter

1

(3)

"Why I Sung the Blues"

1

(3)

August Wilson

4

(4)

"Just Chattin"'

5

(3)

Bass Reeves

8

(5)

"Knowing the Territory"

9

(4)

Booker T. Washington

13

(4)

"The Final Key"

13

(4)

Charles "Buddy" Bolden

17

(14)

"My Own Private Blues"

17

(4)

"Witness to the Starting" (remembering Buddy Bolden)

21

(10)

Coretta Scott King

31

(3)

"I Remember"

31

(3)

Elizabeth Hudson Smith

34

(7)

"A Monument to Me"

35

(6)

Frederick Douglass

41

(9)

"Talkin' 'Bout Slavery" (a rap)

41

(5)

"I Will Raise Both My Hands"

46

(4)

"General" Buddoe

50

(4)

"We Will Ask, But We Won't Beg"

50

(4)

Harriet Tubman

54

(5)

"Mr. John Brown and Me"

54

(5)

Hattie McDaniel

59

(6)

"Nobody Knows and Yet They Talk"

59

(6)

Jackie Robinson

65

(4)

"Baseball and Character"

65

(4)

James Baldwin

69

(5)

"A Dream of Deliverance" (a dual monologue)

69

(5)

Joe Louis

74

(6)

"Faithful to the End"

74

(6)

Joseph Cinque

80

(8)

"Memories of the Amistad"

80

(8)

Daniel Louis "Satch" Armstrong

88

(4)

"Rang"

89

(3)

Mahalia Jackson

92

(9)

"The Honest-to-God Truth" (young Mahalia)

92

(6)

"Why I Sing Gospel"

98

(3)

Malcolm X

101

(4)

"Changes"

102

(3)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

105

(4)

"I Want to Make This Clear"

105

(4)

Nat Turner

109

(6)

"Meditations" (on the eve of his bold and daring enterprise)

109

(6)

Oscar Micheaux

115

(6)

"Ambition and Optimism"

115

(6)

Paul Robeson

121

(4)

"Who I Am, What I Stand For"

122

(3)

"Queen" Mary

125

(3)

"Tired a Waitin"'

125

(3)

Ralph Johnson Bunche

128

(4)

"A New World Order" (a prayer)

128

(4)

Rosa Parks

132

(5)

"Unsung Heroes"

132

(5)

St. Martin de Porres

137

(4)

"I Am Blessed"

137

(4)

Sojourner Truth

141

(5)

"The Power of Words: Starting to Learn"

141

(5)

Performance Rights

146

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