page_title: Dunbar Theatre (Philadelphia)
hierarchical_section_title: Dunbar Theatre (Philadelphia)
caption_attribution_description: English: 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. (Historical Marker at Southwest Corner Broad and Lombard Streets Philadelphia PA - PA Historical &amp; Museum Commission 1991)
context_page_description: Dunbar Theatre was a 1600-seat theatre and jazz club on the corner of Lombard Street and Broad Street in Philadelphia, United States. It opened in 1919 and was later called the Gibson Theatre and Lincoln Theatre.
context_section_description: Dunbar Theatre was a 1600-seat theatre and jazz club on the corner of Lombard Street and Broad Street in Philadelphia, United States. It opened in 1919 and was later called the Gibson Theatre and Lincoln Theatre.
caption: The Dunbar Theatre Historical marker
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