Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Humor Matters

1. The Green Room

2. Coming to the Stage

3. All of the Lights

photo gallery following page 68

4. Black Comedy, Black Power

5. Edutainment

Epilogue

Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the Author

Malcolm Frierson is Associate Professor of History at North Lake College.

Reviews

"Frierson highlights the connections between artistic expression and activism as a mutual exchange in the process of continuing to enlighten, inspire, and transform a painfully divided society. The book interrogates the stirring contrast between humor and hurt through an analytical vantage point that often transcended race in an era largely defined by the separation of blacks and whites." — Aaron X. Smith, Temple University