PA-118 The Dunbar Theatre

Marker text: The Dunbar Theatre
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.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1991

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Location: South & Broad Sts., Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

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