Hughes, RhetaOverview
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Most widely held works by
Rheta Hughes
Sweet sweetback's baad asssss song
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1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 380 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A young hustler's aimless pleasure-seeking turns to radicalism after witnessing the beating of a Black revolutionary by two white cops
Don't play us cheap
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2 editions published between 1996 and 2004 in English and held by 43 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A musical comedy about two minions of the devil who crash a Harlem party, thrown by Miss Maybell, with high hopes of destroying its festive atmosphere
Beyond obsession A killing affair
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 39 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Beyond obsession: A mysterious man in a North African prison shares a love-hate relationship with his beautiful adopted daughter, who sells herself to earn money to buy his freedom. The situation is complicated when she is torn between her love for him and for an American engineer who offers her an escape
A killing affair
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4 editions published between 2002 and 2005 in English and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In 1943, a widow from the isolated backwoods of West Virginia in Appalachia takes in a young drifter who eventually admits he killed her husband
Introducing an electrifying new star
by Rheta Hughes
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2 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
As serious as a heart-attack
by Melvin Van Peebles
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1 edition published in 1971 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Starpiece
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1 edition published in 1980 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Re-light my fire
by Rheta Hughes
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1 edition published in 1968 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Amen corner (excerpts)
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1 edition published in 1983 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide Reviewer's reel of excerpts from the Broadway production of Amen corner, a musical based on a play by James Baldwin. The production opened on Nov. 10, 1983, and closed on Dec. 4, 1983
Jubilee Showcase
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1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
Josephine the musical
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1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
A Long days journey into night
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1 edition published in 1982 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide Presents Eugene O'Neill's classic play starring an all-Black cast
Angel man
by Rheta Hughes
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1 edition published in 1983 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
John Conyers portrait collection
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in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide Quarter-length and close-up candid portraits of Michigan congressman John Conyers, and group portrait of Conyers with Detroit mayor Coleman Young at the Democratic National Convention, New York (1976)
Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song
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1 edition published in 1985 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Follows a black street hustler, Sweetback, on the run from the police after he kills the two white policemen who brutalized a young prisoner for racist reasons more
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Africa, North African American mayors African American politicians African Americans African Americans in motion pictures Alcoholism American drama (Tragedy) American literature Baker, Josephine, Baldwin, James, Brothers Crime Disco music Drama Drifters Drug addiction Drugs Dysfunctional families Ex-convicts Families Fathers and daughters Fathers and sons Illinois--Chicago Jazz Jazz vocals Marriage Mexico Michigan Mothers and sons Motion pictures Motion pictures, American Murder New York (State)--New York New York (State)--New York--Harlem Nineteen forty-three, A.D O'Neill, Eugene, Parties Police brutality Prisons Race relations in motion pictures Racism Revenge Rhythm and blues music Sacred songs Soul music United States Van Peebles, Melvin, Video recording West Virginia Widows
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Hughes, Rhetta
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