The Lafayette Players

     As one of the first  African-American acting groups in America, The Lafayette Players set out to show that blacks were just as good as whites. They first started out as the Anita Bush Players, named after their founder, but after leaving the Lincoln Theater they went to the Lafayette Theater thus their new name. This theater group changed the way people thought about theater and African-Americans.

I would have video and audio, but since it was the 1920's and by black performers they didn't think it was important enough to record.

The place where it all happened, Harlem

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