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ABSTRACT
Role-play was a popular educational strategy within the American civil rights movement. Many civil rights activists performed the movement in private before performing it again in public. Compared to the scholarship on the role of music in the civil rights movement, the importance of drama has been understudied. The history of role-play as an educational strategy provides new insights into the relationship between performance and nonviolent activism, and offers an alternative genealogy of applied theatre.
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Nico Slate
Nico Slate is Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of four books and the editor of a collected volume. His research focuses on struggles against racism, imperialism, and other forms of oppression in the United States and India.