Catch The Tiger- A play about Marcus Garvey Movement!

Africa For The African

Marcus Garvey

"One God. One Aim. One Destiny."

 

 

Interview with Playwright Melvin Ishmael Johnson

Contact: Melvin Johnson <dramastage1@yahoo.com>

The preeminent African American leader in the 1920's of the first African American mass movement in the US. His credo -- Blacks should support their own institutions and businesses. He tried to internationalize the Black diaspora: "One God. One Aim. One Destiny."

Experience the drama of Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey as a young J. Edgar Hoover attempts to bring him and his movement down through an infamous counter-intelligence program eventually named COINTELPRO.
The play features several African Artists Association members and friends’

Catch the Tiger 
written by Melvin Ishmael Johnson
Directed by Bill White

 

Cast Interviews 

 

 

 

 Dee Dee Stephens & Charlotte Plummer

 Pan Africans 

 

Petal D'Avril & Director Bill White