A play that depicts Frederick Douglas overcoming his beginnings as a slave to becoming the first African American man to hold a diplomatic office.

Escape To Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass

Teen & Young Adult

Davis, Ossie

Education & Reference

Puffin Books

Just Like Martin

Joining the local efforts for Civil Rights in their 1960s Deep South community, fourteen-year-old Ike Stone and his companions are proud of their part in the movement until two of their friends are killed in a racial bombing incident. Reprint.

Literature & Fiction

Puffin

Poet Langston Hughes visits a church basement where a drama group is rehearsing one of his plays, and uses the actors to recreate scenes from his early life.

LANGSTON.

Children's Books

DELACORTE. NY 1982

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Born a slave, young Frederick Douglass endures many years of cruelty before escaping to the North to claim his freedom.

Escape to freedom: A play about young Frederick Douglass

Trumpet Club

Davis, Ossie. Purlie Victorious. A Comedy in Three Acts. New York, Samuel French, Inc., 1961. 18,2 cm x 12,6 cm. 90 pages. With Scene Design illustration. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ossie Davis (born Raiford Chatman Davis; December 18, 1917 - February 4, 2005) was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and social activist. When Davis wanted to pursue a career in acting, he ran into the usual roadblocks that blacks suffered at that time as they generally could only portray stereotypical characters such as Stepin Fetchit. Instead, he tried to follow the example of Sidney Poitier and play more distinguished characters. When he found it necessary to play a Pullman porter or a butler, he tried to portray the character seriously and not in a stereotypical manner. In addition to acting, Davis, along with Melvin Van Peebles, and Gordon Parks was one of the notable African-American directors of his generation: he directed movies like Gordon's War, Black Girl and Cotton Comes to Harlem. Along with Bill Cosby and Poitier, Davis was one of a handful of African American actors able to find commercial success while avoiding stereotypical roles prior to 1970, which also included a significant role in the 1965 movie The Hill alongside Sean Connery plus roles in The Cardinal and The Scalphunters. However, Davis never had the tremendous commercial or critical success that Cosby and Poitier enjoyed. As a playwright, Davis wrote Paul Robeson: All-American, which is frequently performed in theatre programs for young audiences. Davis found recognition late in his life by working in several of director Spike Lee's films, including Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, She Hate Me and Get on the Bus. He also found work as a commercial voice-over artist and served as the narrator of the early-1990s CBS sitcom Evening Shade, starring Burt R..

Purlie Victorious

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

Escape to freedom: The story of young Frederick Douglass : a play for young people

S. French

Escape to Freedom

a play about young Fredrick Douglass, written by Ossie Davis.

scholastic

Following the deaths of two classmates in a bomb explosion at his Alabama church, fourteen-year-old Stone organizes a children's march for civil rights in the autumn of 1963.

Demco Media

Born a slave, young Frederick Douglass endures many years of cruelty before escaping to the North to claim his freedom.

Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass

Viking Press

The actor-playwright tells the story of a boy growing up in Alabama in 1963, a youngster who becomes torn between his idol, Dr Martin Luther King, and his father, a Korean War veteran who believes in fighting fire with fire.

Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers

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Escape To Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass

Just Like Martin

LANGSTON.

Escape to freedom: A play about young Frederick Douglass

Purlie Victorious

Escape to freedom: The story of young Frederick Douglass : a play for young people

Escape to Freedom

Just Like Martin

Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass

Just Like Martin