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We are beautiful, imaginative and gifted people, and we owe it to ourselves and to our future generations to restore, to recreate this beauty. We must begin building cultural centers where we can enjoy being free, open and black, where we can find out how talented we really are, where we can be what we were born to be, and not what we were brainwashed to be.

Barbara Ann Teer

Barbara Ann Teer

Barbara Ann Teer

Born: June 18, 1937

Died: July 21, 2008 (aged 71)

Bio: Dr. Barbara Ann Teer was an African-American writer, producer, teacher, actress and visionary. In 1968, she founded Harlem's National Black Theatre, the first revenue-generating black theater arts complex in the U.S.

Known for:

A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
The Angel Levine (1970)
Slaves (1969)

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