The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depiction of life in a segregated society. The highlight, by far, is rare footage of Orson Welles’s “Voodoo Macbeth,” produced in 1935 for the New York Negro Unit of the WPA’s Federal Theatre Project.
Eric Burroughs
Hecate
Lawrence Chenault
Doctor
Alma Dickson
The Duchess
Maurice Ellis
Macbeth
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September 5, 1937
15m
5.4
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Federal Works Agency
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