Performing Arts – Actors
Carol Sutton (1944-2020)
Carol Joan Dickerson Sutton was an actress in film, theater, and television, and was best known for her role as...
Tamara Dobson (1947-2006)
Tamara Dobson was a tall, glamorous model-turned-actress best remembered for playing the title roles in the blaxploitation films Cleopatra Jones...
Wayland Rudd (1900-1952)
Wayland Rudd was an American-born actor who moved to the Soviet Union in 1932 as part of a group of 22 African Americans called...
Chica da Silva (1731/1735-1796)
Francisca da Silva de Oliveira, better known as Chica da Silva (or spelled Xica da Silva), was a Brazilian woman...
Idrissa Akuna “Idris” Elba (1972- )
Idrissa Akuna “Idris” Elba is a British actor best known for his roles in The Wire and Mandela: Long Walk...
Gladys Knight (1944- )
Gladys Maria Knight is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and humanitarian. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on...
D’Army Bailey (1941-2015)
“Image Ownership: Rollin Riggs” D’Army Bailey, founder of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis Tennessee, was a political...
The Black Arts Movement (1965-1975)
The Black Arts Movement was the name given to a group of politically motivated black poets, artists, dramatists, musicians, and...
The Colored Players (1926-1929)
The Colored Players Film Corporation was a silent film production company based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early twentieth...
