Adrienne Wartts
Adjunct professor of film studies at Webster University
M.A. in American Culture Studies, with an emphasis in African American Studies, from Washington University
Adrienne N. Wartts received her M.A. in American Culture Studies, with an emphasis in African American Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis. She is an adjunct professor of film studies at Webster University. As a contributing writer for Jerry Jazz Musician magazine, she has interviewed Rick Coleman, author of Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock ‘N’ Roll and Elizabeth Pepin, author of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era. Adrienne is the recipient of the 2009 Norman Mailer Writers Colony Scholarship for biography writing.
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Nina Mae McKinney (1913-1967)
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Maidie Norman (1912-1998)
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Lorenzo Tucker (1907-1986)
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Daniel Haynes (1894-1954)
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Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998)
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The Ville (St. Louis, MO)
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Evelyn Preer (1896-1932)
Evelyn Preer, one of the first African American silent screen actresses to transition into sound Hollywood films, was born on...
Rex Ingram (1895-1969)
Rex Ingram, one of the first African American male actors to serve on the Board of the Screen Actors Guild,...
Oscar Polk (1900-1949)
Actor Oscar Polk began his career in the early 1930s as a stage performer in the musical production of Swingin’...
Homer G. Phillips (1880-1931)
Prominent St. Louis attorney Homer Gilliam Phillips was born in Sedalia, Missouri in 1880. He was the son of a...
Homer G. Phillips Hospital (1937-1979)
Homer G. Phillips Hospital, one of the country’s most prestigious medical institutions, was designed by architect Albert Osburg. The hospital...
