Shirley Graham-DuBois

Shirley Graham-DuBois Uncovering the life of the “widow”

Goals ,[object Object],[object Object]

Early Life ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Young Shirley Graham

Absent Mom ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Rev. David Graham Etta Graham

The Artist “ My feeling was that if the other children understood, if they really knew what Negroes did, and what they had contributed; if they really knew about Africa…naturally they would see, and they would understand. Because they didn't know was the reason they acted the way they did.…” -Shirley Graham-DuBois

Re-invention ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Tom Tom ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Shirley Graham at the time of the opening of Tom-Tom , circa 1932

Tom Tom ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Director ,[object Object],[object Object],FTP poster, 1936

Swing Mikado ,[object Object],Swing Mikado , 1938

Little Black Sambo ,[object Object],Little Black Sambo , Aug 1938

End of FTP ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Yale ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Transitioning ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Activist “… in the final analysis white supremacy has us by [the] throat because the white man has the money. Yet I’ll be damned if I’m sorry.” -Shirley Graham-DuBois after her dismissal from USO

Race Woman ,[object Object],[object Object]

Voicing Her Opinion ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Fort Huachuca, 1943

N.A.A.C.P ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Black Feminism ,[object Object],[object Object],Rosa Lee Ingram with her 2 sons.

The Biographer ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Financial Prosperity ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Mrs. DuBois ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B. DuBois, Shirley Graham and unidentified man in Ghana,1961

Shirley, W.E.B & The Left "There were times when I felt that Shirley had been assigned from the Party to take ... to grab him.” -Kyrle Elkin, friend of W.E.B. DuBois, 1987

“Femme Fatale” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Fact or Fiction? ,[object Object]

Wife & #1 Fan ,[object Object],[object Object]

Mrs. DuBois ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Life after DuBois “ for the first time in my life I am really part of a dynamic, progressive government which is doing something every day … Africa is leading the way! I am most fortunate and happy to be in the front ranks.” -Shirley Graham-Dubois, 1964

Shirley Graham-DuBois led by Kwame Nkrumah at funeral service for W.E.B DuBois 1963

Citizen of Ghana ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Ghana Television ,[object Object],[object Object]

Nation Building ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

On to Cairo ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Back to the U.S.A. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Afro-Pride ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Final Years ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Legacy "The many contributions of Shirley Graham have on the whole been neglected in the annals of American theatre history. Graham was one of the few black women, prior to the 1950s, to actively pursue a career in professional theatre as a playwright, composer, designer, and director. " (Perkins 209)

Historical Legacy ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object],“Race Woman”

More than a widow ,[object Object],[object Object]

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