mss0099_0852.xml Finding aid for It Bees Dat Way (a Confrontational Ritual) : play 1969 December 27 University of Delaware Library, Special Collections University of Delaware Library
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Date encoded (2009 November 20) Finding aid encoded 2009 November 20 English It Bees Dat Way (a Confrontational Ritual) : play 1969 December 27 Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Phone: 302-831-2229 Fax: 302-831-6003 URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
 Bullins, Ed. It Bees Dat Way (a Confrontational Ritual) : play 1969 December 27 MSS 099, F852 1 item (11 p.) This 11-page manuscript is a mechanically reproduced typescript of Ed Bullins's play, It Bees Dat Way (a Confrontational Ritual).. Materials entirely in English. University of Delaware Library - Special Collections Source

Purchase, 2004.

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 Citation

MSS 099, F852, Ed Bullins, It Bees Dat Way (a Confrontational Ritual) : play, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

 Shelving Summary Box 59, F852: Shelved in SPEC MSS 099 manuscript boxes Processing

Processed and encoded by Anita Wellner, November 2009.

 Biographical Note

African American playwright Ed Bullins, who began writing plays as a political activist in the mid-1960s and was later the associate director of Harlem's New Lafayette Theatre, helped shape the revolutionary theater of black experience.

"Ed Bullins." Contemporary Authors Online (reproduced in Biography Resource Center). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed November 2009).

Scope and Content Note

Mechanically reproduced typescript of Ed Bullins's play, It Bees Day Way (a Confrontational Ritual).

The title page of this one act play bears the typed addresses of Ed Bullins and The New Lafayette Agency, both in Harlem, New York City. Page nine concludes with the typed note: "Ed Bullins, Harlem, Dec. 27, 1969." This play was published in Four Dynamite Plays by Morrow in 1972.

 Selected Search Terms Topical Terms American drama--20th century. American drama--African American authors--20th century. Form/Genre Terms Plays (document genre) Related Materials in this Repository

This item forms part of MSS 099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

 Detailed Contents List 59 F852 It Bees Dat Way (A Confrontational Ritual) : play 1969 December 27