In White America (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Martin Duberman
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Plot: History; epic theater
- Time of Work: The mid-eighteenth century to 1964
- Setting: United States
- Principal Characters: Ship’s doctor, A Quaker, Thomas Jefferson, The Reverend Samuel May, Mary Chesnut, Colonel Thomas Higginson, Elizabeth Bothune, Andrew Johnson, Frederick Douglass, Mrs. Tutson, Ben Tillman, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Monroe Trotter, Marcus Garvey, Girl
- Genres: Drama, History play, Epic theater
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Segregation or integration, Freedom, History, Racism, Blacks, Abolitionists, Slavery or slaves, Interracial relationships, Middle Passage, Civil War, Equality, Lynching, Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction, Hypocrisy
- Locales: United States
The Play
A two-act play, In White America is divided into the century prior to the American Civil War and the century that followed the war’s end. In epic style, it depicts the struggles of pre-Civil War abolitionist movements, the era of Reconstruction, early twentieth century racism and segregation, and the Civil Rights movement. As the curtain opens a white man reads the date from a newspaper (January 12, 1964) as the pros and cons of racial integration are debated among three black and three white characters. The opening scene concludes with the white man...
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