First Acts: A Black Playwright Comes of Age : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers : 9781476688428 : 1476688427 : 24 May 2022 : "Celebrated playwright and television writer Kermit Frazier began life as a precocious Negro boy growing up in Southeast Washington, D.C. during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. As a student at an all-Black elementary school, Kermit was selected for a newly formed honors track at a predominantly white secondary school. Traveling a complex path, Kermit tore down segregation barriers, balanced on an academic pedestal, and battled an internal war of denial against his same-sex attractions. This memoir is not a story about a young man rising from "the hood." Rather, this is the story of a young Black man struggling with stereotypes, identity, and mild dyslexia while straddling two middle-class worlds, Black and white, and striving not to be everyone's "other.""--