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.
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Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov
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