Harriet Jacobs - The Kansas City Repertory Theatre
Harriet Jacobs - The Kansas City Repertory Theatre
Harriet Jacobs - The Kansas City Repertory Theatre
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AFTER THE PERFORMANCE: REFLECT & CONNECT<br />
POST-SHOW ACTIVITY<br />
St. Louis, MO<br />
1928-<br />
Poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian,<br />
filmmaker, and civil rights activist.<br />
St. Louis, MO<br />
1906-1975<br />
Entertainer and activist<br />
<strong>Kansas</strong> <strong>City</strong>, MO<br />
1911-2003<br />
Journalist and activist<br />
Topeka, KS<br />
1917-2000<br />
Poet and activist<br />
<strong>Kansas</strong> <strong>City</strong>, KS<br />
1895-1974<br />
Singer and music critic<br />
First African-American woman to earn a master's degree in music.<br />
HARRIET JACOBS<br />
LEARNING GUIDE | 2010<br />
<strong>Harriet</strong> <strong>Jacobs</strong> eventually fled Edenton, NC and became an activist for the abolitionist cause.<br />
Below are some notable African-American women with ties to our region. Research more<br />
about them and prepare a summary of their lives and accomplishments. Make sure to add to<br />
this list with more notable women that you find. Write a monologue or scene from the point of<br />
view of one of these women. You are adapting history into theatre.<br />
Maya Angelou.<br />
Photo: www.mayaangelou.com.<br />
Lucile Bluford.<br />
Photo: State Historical Site of Missouri.<br />
Nora Holt.<br />
Photo: Carl Van Vecten.<br />
<strong>Kansas</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Repertory</strong> <strong>The</strong>atre: <strong>Harriet</strong> <strong>Jacobs</strong> | 33
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