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Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Black theater, U.S.A.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- [v. 1]: The early period, 1847-1938. The Black doctor / Ira Aldridge (1847) — The brown overcoat / Victor Séjour (1858) — The escape, or, A leap for freedom / William Wells Brown (1958) — In Dahomey / Paul Laurence Dunbar and Jesse A. Shipp (1902) — Star of Ethiopia / W.E.B. du Bois (1912) — Why we are at war / United States Food Administration (1918) — Appearances / Garland Anderson (1925) — Rachel / Angelina Grimké (1916) — Nine eyes have seen / Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1918) — Aftermath / Mary Burrill (1919) — They that sit in darkness / Mary Burrill (1919) — For unborn children / Myrtle Smith Livingston (1926) — The church fight / Ruth Gaines-Shelton (1925) — Undertow / Eulalie Spence (1929) — The purple flower / Marita Odette (Occomy) Bonner (1928) — The deacon’s awakening / Willis Richardson (1920) — Balo / Jean Toomer (1922) — A Sunday morning in the South / Georgia Douglas Johnson (1925) — ‘Cruiter / John Matheus (1926) — Old Man Pete / Randolph Edmonds (1934) — Job hunters / H.F.V. Edward (1931) — Don’t you want to be free? / Langston Hughes (1937) — Big white fog / Theodore Ward (1938) — The first one / Zora Neale Hurston (1927) — Graven images / May Miller (1929) — Natural man / Theodore Browne (1937) — A soldier’s play / Charles Fuller (1981) — Liberty deferred / John D. Silvera and Abram Hill (1938) –
- [v. 2]: The recent period, 1935-today. Mulatto / Langston Hughes (1935) — Native son / Richard Wright and Paul Green (1941) — Take a giant step / Louis Peterson (1953) — A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry (1959) — Ceremonies in dark old men / Lonne Elder III (1965) — The tumult and the shouting / Thomas Pawley (1969) — Limitations of life / Langston Hughes (1938) — On Strivers Row / Abram Hill (1939) — Day of absence / Douglas Turner Ward (1965) — The amen corner / James Baldwin (1954) — The confession stone / Owen Dodson (1960) — Funnyhouse of a Negro / Adrienne Kennedy (1962) — Wine in the wilderness / Alice Childress (1969) — For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is not enuf (excerpt) / Ntozake Shange (1976) — Sally’s rape / Robbie McCauley (1989) — Dutchman / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1964) — Goin’ a Buffalo / Ed Bullins (1966) — Prayer meeting, or, The first militant preacher / Ben Caldwell (1967) — Contribution / Ted Shine (1969) — Blk love song #1 / Kalamu ya Salaam (1969) — The colored museum / George C. Wolfe (1988) — The mojo and the sayso / Aishah Rahman (1989) — Fires in the mirror / Anna Deavere Smith (1992).
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