Tree of Hope Author:Amy Littlesugar Florrie's Daddy was once an actor, and still remembers the Lafayette Theatre when it "shone out over the streets of Harlem like a star." But now it is the Great Depression, buildings are boarded up...the only reminder of the Lafayette's glory days is a single tree. The Tree of Hope, people call it. Florrie and her Daddy wish on it for times to b... more »e the way they were. When the director Orson Welles decides to stage Macbeth at the Lafayette--a play about white people, written by a white man--it doesn't seem they'll ever get that wish. And then they discover this Macbeth is going to be all Harlem's and a play no one will ever forget!
Illustrated with Floyd Cooper's rich oilwash paintings, Amy Littlesugar's story about a real event in the Harlem Renaissance serves as a tribute to the people who, in the face of the Great Depression, refused to let hope die.« less