SOURCE: "Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange: Carving a Place for Themselves on the American Stage," in Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America, Greenwood Press, 1988, pp. 25-49.
[An American educator and playwright, Brown-Guillory is the author of several works on contemporary drama. In the following excerpt, she offers an overview of Childress's principal plays, acknowledging her contributions to African-American drama.]
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