Garland Anderson, 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Garland Anderson, 1928
- Alternative title
- Writers, Plays, Poets
- Date Created
- [1928]
- Date
- 1928
- Collection
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Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Description
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Studio portrait of Garland Anderson.
Garland Anderson was a playwright and moralistic philosopher of constructive thinking. He was the first African American known to have a serious full-length drama produced on Broadway in New York. Active in the theatre for over 10 years during the 1920s and 1930s. Anderson spent the last period of his life lecturing on his beliefs about constructive thinking, on which he wrote a book titled Uncommon Sense (1933).
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
Keywords
- Genre
- Portrait photographs
- Names
- Anderson, Garland, 1886-1939
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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African American authors
African American dramatists