Beauty in Black Performance: Plays for African American YouthThe four plays contained herein bring together aspects of American history and culture that dramatise the presence and contributions of Africans and African Americans in the shaping of the United States. Written for performance by junior and high school youth, the plays introduce students to the Middle Passage, the Antebellum South, slave revolts in 19th-century America, Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era, lynching, folktales of the Deep South and the Harlem Renaissance. |
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African spirit ain't Ancestors Asante Princess ASANTEMENA ASANTIHENA BABY BROTHER Batteau BECK BETTY MOSS Black buckets CALVIN MCDOWELL CAPTAIN VESEY CHICKEN LEG colored CONDUCTOR CONNIE CRIMINAL JUDGE CROWD DENMARK VESEY doctah DORA drums Eddie Diamond ELDERLY IDA Elizabeth Ella Cinder enter EUPHRATES GEORGE WILSON gone gonna gots grabs GRAND DRAGON GRANDMA PEGGY grocery store GULLAH JACK Harlem HEADMISTRESS HENRY STEWART Hog farmer Holly Springs ISLAND SPIRITS JEB LUCAS Jett JOEY Bad nights JOHNNY JOJO JOURNALIST JUDGE HAMILTON JUDGE PIERCE KLAN MEMBER Lacey Ladies car Liza LOUIE lynching MAMA LOLA MARKET WOMAN Massah George MEAN MOLLY Obonto Memphis Miss Ida MISS LAURA MONDAY GELL NASTY BOY NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST NELLY NIGHT SPIRIT PETER POYAS PREACHER PRISSY REVEREND ROLLA BENNETT Shaw University SHERIFF SHOWGIRLS Sistah Jefferson slave Smoking car SPELLER DRILLER Tommie tonight TRISH walks WATAH MOCASIN WHITE WOMAN WILLA MAE women Young Denmark