Paul Green, examining a document with Richard Wright
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1921 - Paul Green (1894-1941) Graduates
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Paul Green graduates from UNC. During his time at the University he studied under Frederick Koch (1877-1944), who greatly influenced his work. A progressive activist and playwright, Green received the Pulitzer Prize for his play In Abraham’s Bosom and wrote movie scripts for several companies in Hollywood.
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Paul Green graduates from UNC. During his time at the University he studied under Frederick Koch (1877-1944), who greatly influenced his work. A progressive activist and playwright, Green received the Pulitzer Prize for his play In Abraham’s Bosom, which ran on Broadway from December 1926 to June 1927. He also wrote movie scripts for several companies in Hollywood, including Warner Brothers and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and is credited as the father of outdoor symphonic drama.
In 1940 Green collaborated with Richard Wright (1908-1960) to dramatize Wright’s novel Native Son despite the local segregatists’ attitudes that forbid collaboration between White and Black people. According to Allison Johnson, “While Wright was in Chapel Hill, angry [white] citizens approached Green about Wright’s presence with white girls at a racially mixed party. That same night, Green slept in the building next to Wright just in case the mob decided to come back. However, Green never alerted his guest of what had happened. As Green’s daughter said, her dad 'let him go on believing that Chapel Hill in 1941 was a haven of racial tolerance'" (Johnson).
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Johnson, Allison. “Paul Green Theatre.” Names in Brick and Stone: Histories from UNC’s Built Landscape, History/American Studies 671: Introduction to Public History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015,http://unchistory.web.unc.edu/building-narratives/paul-green-theatre/.
Powell, William S. “Green, Paul Eliot.” Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, edited by William S. Powell. U of North Carolina P, 1996. Rpt. in NCPedia, https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/green-paul-eliot.
“Symphonic Outdoor Drama.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, 2020,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonic_outdoor_drama.
