Ira Aldridge - Legacy and Honors

Legacy and Honors

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He received awards for his art from European heads of state and governments: the Prussian Gold Medal for Arts and Sciences from King Frederick William III, the Golden Cross of Leopold from the Czar of Russia, and the Maltese Cross from Berne, Switzerland.
Aldridge is the only African American to have a bronze plaque among the 33 actors honored at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon.
In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Ira Aldridge on his 100 Greatest African Americans.
His life was the subject of a play, Red Velvet, by Lolita Chakrabarti and starring Adrian Lester, at the Tricycle Theatre in 2012.

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