In White America | In White America

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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

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...

In White America | In White America

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