The First Black Woman Performers On An American Stage

Mon, 08.04.1890

The First Black Woman Performers On An American Stage

Effie Chamberlain, Creoles

*On this date in 1890, Sam T. Jacks’s play Creoles opens with Effie Chamberlain and Belle Davis.

The Haverhill, Massachusetts production is the first time Black women were featured as performers on a public stage

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The African American Atlas
Black History & Culture an Illustrated Reference
by Molefi K. Asanta and Mark T. Mattson
Macmillan USA, Simon & Schuster, New York
ISBN 0-02-864984-2

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