Overview
The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depiction of life in a segregated society. The highlight, by far, is rare footage of Orson Welles’s “Voodoo Macbeth,” produced in 1935 for the New York Negro Unit of the WPA’s Federal Theatre Project.
Cast
- Eric Burroughs as Hecate
- Lawrence Chenault as Doctor
- Alma Dickson as The Duchess
- Maurice Ellis as Macbeth