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Blue plaque № 29447

Philadelphia, PA, United States

Dunbar Theatre, The. Erected here by Black bankers, this theater was home to the Lafayette Players, popular vaudeville entertainers. Later bought by white interests and renamed the Lincoln, it hosted major Black performers from the 1920s into the 1940s.

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