Two Trains Running (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: August Wilson
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: Justice, 1960’s, Gambling, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Poverty or poor people, Inner cities or inner-city life, Death or dying, Preaching, Money, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Pittsburgh, Economic conditions, Consumers or consumer rights, Prophecy or prophets, Urban renewal
- Locales: Pittsburgh, PA
Part of his ten-play cycle, one for each decade of the century, Two Trains Running takes place in Pittsburgh in 1969 during a period of both hope and despair for African Americans.
Early in the decade, Jackie Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the first black player to achieve such an honor. Registration of southern black voters reached new levels. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and the following year led three thousand people on a fifty-four-mile protest march between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. Thurgood Marshall...
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