Trailblazers in Black History: Charles Fuller

 

Charles H. Fuller, Jr. is an African American playwright, best known for his play, A Soldier's Play, for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. 

Fuller vowed to become a writer after noticing that his high school's library had no books by African American authors. He achieved critical notice in 1969 with The Village: A Party, a drama about racial tensions between a group of mixed-race couples. 

He later wrote plays for the Henry Street Settlement theatre and the Negro Ensemble Company in New York, who have performed several of his plays. His 1975 play The Brownsville Raid is based on the Brownsville Affair, an altercation between black soldiers and white civilians in Brownsville, Texas, in 1906, which led to an entire black regiment being dishonorably discharged though later pardoned in 1976.

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Source: Wikipedia