edited by Leo Hamalian and James V. Hatch ; foreword by George C. Wolfe.
454 pages ;
24 cm.
African American life series
Bibliography: p. 447-454.
Introduction: Two hundred years of black and white drama / James V. Hatch -- The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom (1858) / William Wells Brown -- Peculiar Sam, or The Underground Railroad (1879) / Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins -- Aunt Betsy's Thanksgiving (c.1914) / Katherine D. Chapman Tillman -- Aftermath (1919) / Mary Burrill -- Black Vaudeville (c.1920) / Butterbeans and Susie (Jodie and Susie Edwards) -- The Chip Woman's Fortune (1923) / Willis Richardson -- The First One (1927) / Zora Neale Hurston -- Help Wanted (1929) / Joseph S. Mitchell -- Tom-Tom (1932) / Shirley Graham -- The Sharecropper (1932) / George A. Towns -- Nails and Thorns (1933) / May Miller -- The Shining Town (1937) / Owen Vincent Dodson -- On Strivers Row (1938) / Abram Hill.