ABSTRACT
WARD: Although John O’Neal didn’t have the funeral for the Free Southern Theater until November 1985, the institution seems to have died in the middle of the 1970s.1
DENT: It did. It died at the same time that so many black community theatres did. I see the death of the FST as a part of the national backlash against black cultural activity which took a separatist, Black Pride direction and identified strongly with black political and economic gains.
