October 24, 1935
Langston Hughes’ play “Mulatto” opened in New York, becoming the first black-authored play to become a long-running Broadway hit. It held the record for longest-running black-authored play on Broadway until Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” in 1959.
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