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Historical Highway MarkersCharles Sidney GilpinSA-77
Charles Sidney Gilpin grew up here in Jackson Ward. He apprenticed in the Richmond Planet print shop before beginning his theater career and becoming one of the most highly regarded actors of the 1920s. Gilpin is best known for his title role in Eugene O'Neill’s Broadway play Emperor Jones, for which he won the Drama League Award and the Spingarn Medal, and was named Crisis magazine Man of the Year (1921). The Drama League declared Gilpin one of ten people who had done the most for American theater. Gilpin was also honored at the White House during President Warren G. Harding’s administration.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Curtis, Susan. The First Black Actors on the Great White Way (Columbia University of Missouri Press, c1998). Pgs 99-100. Isaacs, Edith Juliet Rich. The Negro in the America theatre. (New York, Theatre Arts, 1947). Pgs., 207, 209-210, 214, 215. Patterson, Lindsay. Anthology of the American Negro in the theatre; a Critical approach. Complied and edited with an introduction by Lindsay Patterson. (New York, Publishers Co., 1968). Pg. 28. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sidney_Gilpin" Henry T. Sampson The Ghost Walks: A Chronological History of Blacks in Show Business 1865-1910 (Scarecrow Press Metuchen, NJ, 1988), p.321."Charles Sidney Gilpin." Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. John T. Kneebone, "'It Wasn't All Velvet': The Life and Hard Times of Charles S. Gilpin, Actor," Virginia Cavalcade 38 (summer 1988): 14-27. |