DOI: 10.3138/md-66-2-rev1 ISSN: 0026-7694

Julius B. Fleming, Jr. Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation

Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon
  • Literature and Literary Theory

Julius B. Fleming, Jr.’s Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation examines the central years of the Civil Rights Movement and argues that Black theatre and performance were at the forefront of Black political activism that refused to wait any longer for Black freedom.