National Theater, ca. 1920s
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Theatre Goes Dark
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Theatre Goes Dark
Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Theatre Goes Dark
In 1946, thirteen years after The Green Pastures played to a whites-only audience at the National Theatre, segregation was still the norm. But when a New York play starring Ingrid Bergman was booked at the Lisner Auditorium and Bergman and theā¦