Flyer, Lafayette Players at Dunbar Theatre

Flyer, Lafayette Players at Dunbar Theatre

Cleo Desmond; Andrew Bishop; J. Lawrence Criner; Lafayette Players; Dunbar Theatre; Broad Street; Lombard Street

Located on the corner of Broad and Lombard Streets, Dunbar Theatre became the first theater built and owned by African Americans in Philadelphia and was best known for hosting shows performed by the Lafayette Players.

Ruth Wright Hayre Collection, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries

WCU, HIS 601/HON 452 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Fall 2014

c. 1920

Stephanie Loeh, Alessandra Fonseca

Courtesy of Temple University Libraries

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