Ossie Davis Books
Escape To Freedom
By Ossie Davis
A play that depicts Frederick Douglas overcoming his beginnings as a slave to becoming the first African American man to hold a diplomatic office.
Read MoreJust Like Martin
By Ossie Davis
Following the deaths of two classmates in a bomb explosion at his Alabama church, fourteen-year-old Stone organizes a children's march for civil rights in the autumn of 1963.
Read MoreLangston, a play
By Ossie Davis
Poet Langston Hughes visits a church basement where a drama group is rehearsing one of his plays, and uses the actors to recreate scenes from his early life.
Read MoreEscape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass
By Ossie Davis
Born a slave, young Frederick Douglass endures many years of cruelty before escaping to the North to claim his freedom.
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