Willis Richardson

 

Willis Richardson
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ụdịekerenwoke Dezie
mba o sịNjikota Obodo Amerika Dezie
aha enyereWillis Dezie
aha ezinụlọ yaRichardson Dezie
ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya5 Novemba 1889 Dezie
Ụbọchị ọnwụ ya7 Novemba 1977, 17 Novemba 1977 Dezie
ọrụ ọ na-arụodee akwụkwọ, odee ejije Dezie
ebe agụmakwụkwọM Street High School Dezie
agbụrụNdi Afrika nke Amerika Dezie
Archive naNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dezie

Willis Richardson (November 5, 1889 – Nọvemba 7, 1977) bụ onye odee egwuregwu America.

Akụkọ ndụ

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A mụrụ Willis Richardson na November 5, 1889, na Wilmington, North Carolina, nwa nwoke nke Willis Wilder na Agnes Ann (Harper) Richardson. Ezinụlọ ya kwagara Washington, DC, obere oge ka Wilmington Riots nke 1898 gasịrị.

Ọ gara ụlọ akwụkwọ ọha na Washington, DC gụnyere M Street High School (nke mechara Dunbar High School) . Mgbe ọ na-aga ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị n'ebe ahụ, a gbara ya ume ka ọ dee ihe nkiri Mary P. Burrill, otu n'ime ndị nkụzi ya na onye na-ede egwuregwu n'onwe ya. [1] Richardson rụrụ ọrụ dị ka "onye inyeaka nwere nkà" na ngalaba wetting nke Ụlọ Ọrụ Na-ese Ihe na Mbipụta malite na 8 Maachị 1911.

Na Septemba 1, 1914, ọ lụrụ Mary Ellen Jones ma mụọ ụmụ atọ:

  • Jean Paula Richardson (Ọgọst 7, 1916 – )
  • Shirley Antonella Richardson (Eprel 29, 1918 – )
  • Noel Justine Richardson (Ọgọst 14, 1920 – )

N'afọ 1921, edemede Deacon bụ egwuregwu mbụ Richardson mere ka emebere ya. E gosipụtara ya na Saint Paul, Minnesota .

Ọ nwụrụ na Nọvemba 7, 1977, na Washington, DC N'ime afọ 30 ọ na-arụ ọrụ, o dewo akụkọ ifo ụmụaka, akụkọ ihe mere eme, na egwuregwu ụlọ na ọnụ ọgụgụ 48 n'ozuzu ya. [2]

Ejije na mmepụta

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Mgbe The Deacon's Awakening na 1921, egwuregwu ọzọ Richardson ga-eme bụ The Chip Woman's Fortune, nke Raymond O'Neil's Ethiopian Art Players mepụtara na Chicago, Washington, DC, wee bụrụ ihe mbụ na-abụghị egwu sitere n'aka onye Afrika America na Broadway. [3]

Ndị Howard Player na Mahadum Howard gosipụtara egwuregwu ya Mortgaged na 1923. Ndị na-egwu egwuregwu Dunbar na Plainfield, New Jersey meziri ya na 1924. Emebere edemede nke Deacon n'August 30-Septemba 6, 2015 site n'aka ụlọ ọrụ Xoregos Performing na egwu nke Harlem River mmemme na NYC's Dream Up Festival. Abụ nke Harlem River mepere Ememme Langston Hughes na Queens, New York na February 13, 2016.

The Broken Banjo

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Ihe odide ndị pụtara na The Broken Banjo bụ Emma, Matt, Sam, na Adam. Egwuregwu ahụ malitere na Sam, nwanne Emma, na-ebo Matt, di Emma ebubo igbu ọchụ. N'oge nleta n'ụlọ Emma, mebiri banjo Matt ma were Matt iwe mgbe ọ lọghachiri n'ụlọ. Na mmegwara, Sam na-ekpughe na ọ hụrụ Matt na-egbu Shelton na nkume. Matt kpebiri ịkpọchi Sam na Adam n'ụlọ ruo mgbe ha kwere nkwa na Akwụkwọ Nsọ na ha agaghị agwa onye ọ bụla gbasara igbu ọchụ ahụ. Emma gwara Matt na ha kwesịrị ịkwaga n'obodo ọzọ n'ihi na ọ tụkwasịghị obi na ha abụọ agaghị emezu nkwa ha. Ka Matt na-eme atụmatụ ịpụ, Sam na Adam kpọtaara onye-ọrụ ka ọ jide Mat.

Nkwanye ugwu

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Enyere Richardson ihe nrite Amy Spingarn na 1925 maka The Broken Banjo, ọrụ ya kacha mara amara. Tụkwasị na nke ahụ, egwuregwu ahụ weere ọnọdụ mbụ na asọmpi nke magazin bụ́ The Crisis mere na March 1925, bụ́ ebe e bipụtara egwuregwu ahụ. Ihe nrite ebe mbụ bụ $75. [4] N'afọ sochirinụ ọ natara Spingarn Prize for Bootblack Lover, ihe nkiri n'ime omume atọ. Enyere ya ihe nrite AUDELCO a ma ama mgbe ọ nwụsịrị maka ntinye aka ya na ihe nkiri America.

Ndụ onwe onye

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Ntụaka

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  1. (1990) in Perkins: Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays Before 1950, First Midland Book, Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34358-5. 
  2. Patton (2001). Double Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813529301. 
  3. Helen R. Houston, "Richardson, Willis", in William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster & Trudier Harris (eds), Oxford Companion to African American Literature, New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 632.
  4. Richardson (March 1926). "The Broken Banjo". The Crisis: 225–228. 
  • Yenser, Thomas (onye nchịkọta akụkọ), onye bụ onye na agba America: Akwụkwọ ọkọwa okwu banyere ndụ nke ndị ama ama nke agbụrụ Africa na America, onye bụ onye na agba America, Brooklyn, New York, 1930-1931-1932 (Mbipụta nke atọ)

Njikọ mpụga

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