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Article: This week in black history.(Charles Gordone, Michael Jackson)(Brief Article)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- December 3, 2001
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November 26, 1970--Charles W. Gordone, playwright, director, actor and educator, became the first Black to win a Pulitzer Prize in drama for No Place to Be Somebody on this day. Gordone's play explored the dynamics of Black-White and Black-Black relationships through the story of a Black saloonkeeper who tries to outwit White mobsters. Gordone, a native of Cleveland, attended California State University, in L.A., New York University, the University of California and Columbia University. He also served in the U.S. Air Force. He became an actor in the early '50s, winning an Obie Award for his role in an Off-Broadway production of Of Mice and Men. During the 1950s and early ...