BOOKS
Like One of the Family … Conversations from a Domestic’s Life (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Independence Publishers, 1956)
Wine in the Wilderness: A Comedy-Drama (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1969)
Mojo and String: Two Plays (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1971)
A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973)
Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White (New York: French, 1973)
When the Rattlesnake Sounds (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975)
Let’s Hear It for the Queen (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976)
A Short Walk (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979)
Rainbow Jordan (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1981)
PLAY PRODUCTIONS
Florence, New York, American Negro Theatre, 1949
Just a Little Simple, adapted from Langston Hughes’s collection Simple
Speaks His Mind, New York, Club Baron Theatre, September 1950 Gold Through the Trees, New York, Club Baron Theatre, 1952
Trouble in Mind, New York, Greenwich Mews Theatre, 4 November 1955
Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, December 1966
String, adapted from Guy de Maupassant’s story “A Piece of String,” New York, St. Marks Playhouse, 25 March 1969
The Freedom Drum, retitled Young Martin Luther King, Performing Arts Repertory Theatre, on tour 1969–1972
Mojo: A Black Love Story, New York, New Heritage Theatre, November 1070
Sea Island Song, Charleston, South Carolina, Stage South, 1977
Gullah, Amherst, University of Massachusetts, 1984
SCREENPLAY
A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich, adapted from Childress’s novel of the same title, New World Pictures, 1977
TELEVISION
Wine in the Wilderness, in “On Being Black,” Boston, WGBH, 4 March 1969
Wedding Band, ABC, 1973
String, for Vision (series), PBS, 1979
OTHER
The World on a Hill, in Plays to Remember, Literary Heritage Series (New York: Macmillan, 1968)
Black Scenes, edited by Childress (Garden City: Doubleday, 1971)—includes a scene from Childress’s The African Garden, pp. 137–45
Trouble in Mind, in Black Theatre, edited by Lindsay Patterson (New York: New American Library, 1971), pp. 135–74
“Knowing the Human Condition,” in Black American Literature and Humanism, edited by R. Baxter Miller (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1981), pp. 8–10
PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS:DRAMA
Florence, A One Act Drama, in Masses and Mainstream 3 (October1950): 34–47
NONFICTION
“For a Negro Theatre,” Masses and Mainstream 4 (February 1951): 61–64
“The Negro Woman in American Literature,” Freedomways 6 (Winter 1966): 14–19, reprinted as “A Woman Playwright Speaks Her Mind,” in Anthology of the Afro-American in the Theatre: A Critical Approach, edited by Lindsay Patterson (Cornwells Heights, Pa.: Publishers Agency, 1978), pp. 75–79
“ ‘Why Talk About That?,’ ” Negro Digest 16 (April 1967): 17–21
“Black Writers’ Views on Literary Lions and Values,” Negro Digest 17 (January 1968): 36, 85–87
“ ‘But I Do My Thing,’ ” in “Can Black and White Artists Still Work Together?,” New York Times, 2 February 1969, II: 1, 9
“The Soul Man,” Essence (May 1971): 68–69, 94
“Tributes—to Paul Robeson,” Freedomways 11 (First Quarter 1971):14–15
Abramson, Doris E. Negro Playwrights in the American Theatre, 1925–1959. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969, pp. 188–204, 258–59.
Brown, Janet. Feminist Drama: Definitions and Critical Analysis. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1979, pp. 56–70.
Curb, Rosemary. “An Unfashionable Tragedy of American Racism: Alice Childress’ Wedding Band.” MELUS 7 (Winter 1980): 57–68.
Evans, Mari. Black Women Writers (1950–1980): A Critical Evaluation. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday/Anchor, 1984, pp. 111–34.
Harris, Trudier. From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.
____. “ ‘I wish I was a poet’: The Character as Artist in Alice Childress’s
Like One of the Family,” Black American Literature Forum, 14 (Spring 1980): 24–30.
Miller, Jeanne-Marie A. “Images of Black Women in Plays by Black Playwrights.” College Language Association Journal 20 (June 1977): 494–507.
Mitchell, Loften. Black Drama: The Story of the American Negro in the Theatre. New York; Hawthorn Books, 1977.
___. “Three Writers and a Dream,” Crisis 72 (April 1965): 219–23.