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 Jonette O’Kelley Miller performing as the Lady in Green. Miller is standing in the center of photograph, her left hand at her waist and her right arm out gesturing out to her right. Sitting in the background, behind Miller, are Sharita Mae Hunt, the Lady in Orange, and Roxanne Reese, the Lady in Brown. 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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