Charlene Regester
African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900–1960
Friday, July 8th, at 9:30pm
Sunday July 10th, at 5pm

Season 2010-2011

Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African American Actresses. Charlene Regester poses questions about prevailing racial politics, on-screen and off-screen identities, and black stardom and white stardom. She reveals how these women fought for their roles as well as what they did or not compromised.