Photographic print from the Broadway production of "for colored girls..."

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black and white photograph of Roxanne Reese, performing as the Lady in Brown, and Sharita Mae Hunt, performing as the Lady in Orange. The two women are seated on the stage, both gazing out of frame to proper right. Reese has her right knee raised, and her right hand resting on her lower leg. There is a large flower in the background behind them, as part of the production design. The photograph was taking during the Broadway production of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. This photograph is glued to mounting paper; another photograph from the production is on the reverse side.

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