Black Entertainers in African American Newspapers by Charlene B. Regester 2002

  

Black Entertainers in African American Newspapers by Charlene B. Hardcover without dust jacket as issued.

The book is in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight. For the first half of the twentieth century, the best coverage of blacks in entertainment especially the developing motion picture industry was in the newspapers published and circulated by the African American community. This annotated bibliography offers easy access to that coverage in four of the most influential black newspapers in the period from 1910 to 1950: the Chicago Defender, the Afro-American (Baltimore), the Los Angeles Sentinel and the New York Amsterdam News. The chronological arrangement allows the reader to trace developments in entertainment from the early days of motion pictures to mid-century.

Offers Quotations from the articles.