Loretto Carroll Bailey

Life and Orange County connections

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1. November 7-9, 1929 The Playmakers stage Loretto Carroll Bailey's mill play Job's Kinfolks, their first original full-length play Job's Kinfolks, a three-act play about mill workers by Loretto Carroll Bailey, ran for three nights in November 1929. It heads the book's list of original full-length plays produced by the Playmakers. People: Loretto Carroll Bailey Place: Carolina Playmakers, Chapel HillArchibald Henderson (ed.), Pioneering a People's Theatre (1945), scan p. 110 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 9, 1929, p. 2; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 8, 1929, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 15, 1929, p. 1
2. December 10-12, 1931 The Playmakers stage Strike Song, a new play about Southern mill workers Loretto Carroll Bailey's Strike Song, a full-length play about Southern mill people written with her husband J. O. Bailey, was produced for three nights in December 1931. Henderson calls it her most ambitious work. People: Loretto Carroll Bailey, J. O. (James Osler) Bailey Place: Carolina Playmakers, Chapel HillArchibald Henderson (ed.), Pioneering a People's Theatre (1945), scan p. 110 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, December 1, 1931, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 11, 1931, p. 1
3. April 7, 1934 Playwright Loretto Carroll Bailey wins a General Education Board fellowship At the close of the state Dramatic Festival on April 7, Loretto Carroll Bailey, author of Job's Kinfolks and Strike Song, was announced as the winner of a General Education Board playwriting fellowship of $120 a month for nine months. She was to study under Frederick H. Koch and direct the plays of the Black students at Shaw University in Raleigh. People: Frederick H. Koch Place: Playmakers Theatre, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 13, 1934, p. 4
4. January 1936 The Southern Committee for People's Rights starts its People's Rights Bulletin in Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill chapter of the Southern Committee for People's Rights issued the first number of its People's Rights Bulletin, reporting on strikes, chain gangs, lynchings and civil-liberties cases across the South. Its editorial board included Stanley Stevens, Loretto Carroll Bailey and George McKie, and Paul Green, Phillips Russell and William T. Couch were among its North Carolina sponsors. People: Loretto Carroll Bailey, George McKie, Paul Green Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Stanley Stevens, William T. Couch, Phillips RussellSearch the index · People's Rights Bulletin (Chapel Hill), January 1936, p. 1