Bush-Banks, Olivia Ward, 1869-1944
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Banks, Olivia Ward Bush-, 1869-1944
Bush-Banks, Olivia Ward, b. 1869
Bush, Olivia, b. 1869
Bush, Olivia Ward, 1869-
Ward, Olivia, 1869-1944
Ward, Olivia Tucker, 1869-1944
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- Organization: Robert Gould Shaw Community House (Boston, Mass.)
- Organization: Bush-Banks School of Expression (Ney York, N.Y.)
- Organization: Abyssinian Community Center (Harlem, N.Y.)
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Dramatists
Novelists
Poets
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Sources
found: Her Original poems, 1899:t.p. (Mrs. Olivia Bush) p. 2 (an Afro-American poetess of Providence, R.I.)
found: NUC pre-1956(Bush, Olivia (Ward), 1869- )
found: Her The collected works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, 1991:CIP t.p.; introd. (b. Olivia Ward; marriage to Frank Bush over by 1895; m. 1916 to Anthony Banks)
found: The music ABC's of black history, 1974:t.p. (Olivia Tucker Ward)
found: African American National Biography, accessed January 3, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Bush-Banks, Olivia Ward; dramatist, fiction writer, poet; born 27 February 1869 in Sag Harbor, New York, United States; graduated from Providence High School; became assistant drama director of Robert Gould Shaw Community House, Boston (1900); contributed to Colored American Magazine (1900-1904); founded Bush-Banks School of Expression and became a drama instructor (1916); participated in the Federal Theater Project of the Works Progress Administration (1936) coaching drama at the Abyssinian Community Center, Harlem; died 08 April 1944 in New York, New York, United States)
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Change Notes
1986-11-17: new
2022-04-22: revised
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