The Regal Theater and black culture / by Clovis E. Semmes.
Chronicling over forty years of critical changes in African-American expressive and popular culture, covering diverse forms of music, dance, and comedy, the Regal Theater (1928-1968) was the largest and most architecturally splendid movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a black community. In t...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- The Opening: Separate but Equal
- The Depression Years: Privilege in the Marketplace and Black Stewardship
- The End of Monopoly and the End of Swing
- The Decline of Commercial Segregation and the Transition to Independence
- Rebirth, Black Ownership, and the Closing of the Palace
- Retrospect and Lessons Learned.