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Calvin Alexander Ramsey

CALVIN ALEXANDER RAMSEY  

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below is a list of Calvin Alexander Ramsey's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

Canada Lee         Damaged Virtue: A Cry From Within         Sherman Town: Baseball, Apple Pie And The klan



Canada Lee

Synopsis:
An American actor who pioneered roles for African Americans and a champion of civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s, Canadas career was cut short by the House Un-American Activities Committee

Notes:
part of Shadow a festival of concert play readings celebrating Black History Month

1st Produced:
(concert play reading) La MaMa First Floor Theatre
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    08 Feb 2013

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Damaged Virtue: A Cry From Within

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Shadow: A festival of concert play readings , celebrating Black history Month

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Sherman Town: Baseball, Apple Pie And The klan

Synopsis:
Every Labor Day in Shermantown - a town named by blacks freed by Union Army Gen. Sherman after he took Atlanta in 1864 - thoUSAnds of Klansmen gathered for an annual national meeting at Stone Mountain where a large relief memorial depicts Confederate Heroes. This play is about the co-existence of the town's black community with the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s.

Notes:
Experiments '11 Play Reading Series

1st Produced:
reading at La MaMa E.T.C.
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    06 Dec 2010

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