Pre-production photograph of Al Tinnin as Azdak in the Caucasian Chalk Circle. Al Tinnin was the first African-American student to graduate from Carleton College, and the first African American student to act on stage at Carleton. This was the premiere of the Bertolt Brecht play: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and it was a student-led production at Little Nourse Theater from May 4th-8th in 1947.