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The Curtain Goes Up

The Curtain Goes Up is a short film produced by Georgetown College students Yasmine Bouachri, Clio Gates, Lauren Lee, Gary Simons, and Xanthia Yerby in FMST-399- Social Justice Documentary, taught by Professor Bernard Cook in the Spring 2020…

Tags: Blackface Minstrelsy, Georgetown Dramatic Association

First Performance of the "Contrabands" of Georgetown College, 1861

First Performance of the Contrabands 1861 Georgetown University Dramatic Association Archives.pdf

Playbill for a blackface minstrel show at Georgetown dated December 17, 1861.By December 1861, the word "contraband" had come to refer to enslaved people who had escaped to the Union Army.For more information on the Georgetown "Contrabands", see…

Tags: Blackface Minstrelsy, Contrabands, Georgetown Dramatic Association

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