Excerpt from In the Vanguard of a Race Among actors, none who have seen him will for get Charles Gilpin, who drew thousands of white people to his extraordinary presentation in New York of The Emperor Jones, and whose world was listed by the American Drama League among the ten outstanding achievements Of the American stage in 1921. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.