The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depiction of life in a segregated society. The highlight, by far, is rare footage of Orson Welles’s “Voodoo Macbeth,” produced in 1935 for the New York Negro Unit of the WPA’s Federal Theatre Project.
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Charles Collins | Macduff |
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Eric Burroughs | Hecate |
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Lawrence Chenault | Doctor |
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Alma Dickson | The Duchess |
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Maurice Ellis | Macbeth |
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Juanita Hall | Self - Choir Director |
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Zola King | Third Witch |
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Edna Thomas | Lady Macbeth |
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Josephine Williams | Second Witch |
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Wilhelmina Williams | First Witch |