BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY
Seattle Rep presents BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY by Pearl Cleage from January 30 to February 23, 2025. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, films and music to enhance your experience of the show.
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Blues for An Alabama Sky
The script of BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY, for your reading pleasure.
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Fearless and Free
Read about the exceptional life of Josephine Baker to better understand why Guy from BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY dreamed of designing dresses for her in Paris.
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Baldwin's semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of John, a fourteen-year-old boy whose stepfather is a Pentecostal minister in Harlem in 1935, and his struggles to discover his own identity.
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There Is Confusion
Written in 1924 and set in the early 20th century, this novel follows the lives of talented dancer Joanna Marshall and her two childhood friends Peter and Maggie as they navigate life and changes in their relationships to one another.
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Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
Hansberry's play explores the complex dynamics of a working-class Black American family living in 1950s Chicago as they disagree on how to spend their late relative's insurance money.
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God's Trombones
Johnson was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. This poetry collection draws inspiration from the sermons of old-time African American preachers, a religious movement that had begun to vanish in Johnson's time.
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When Harlem Was in Vogue
This "major study...thoroughly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun." (The New York Times Book Review).
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Intimate Apparel
These two companion plays from award-winning playwright Lynn Nottage explore the parallel lives of two Black women in New York City 100 years apart.
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Take My Hand
Nurse Civil Townsend uncovers the heinous acts being committed against her mostly Black patients at a family planning clinic in 1970s Alabama. This story is inspired by the real-life case of forced sterilization of the Relf sisters.
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The Street
Petry's classic novel "explores the life and dreams of a young woman who struggles to raise her son in a suffocating ghetto world of racism, human degradation, and uncontrolled violence." (NoveList).
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