Roots of African American Drama : An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword, -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Two Hundred Years of Black and White Drama, -- The Great White Way -- The Great Black Way -- William Wells Brown -- References -- The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom (1858) -- PLAYWRIGHT'S PREFACE -- CHARACTERS REPRESENTED -- ACT ONE -- Scene One -- Scene Two -- Scene Three -- Scene Four -- ACT TWO -- Scene One -- Scene Two -- Scene Three -- ACT THREE -- Scene One -- Scene Two -- Scene Three -- Scene Four -- Scene Five -- ACT FOUR -- Scene One -- Scene Two -- Scene Three -- ACT FIVE -- Scene One -- Scene Two -- Scene Three -- Scene Four -- Scene Five -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins -- References -- Peculiar Sam, or Thje Underground Railroad (1879) 100 -- Cast -- ACT I -- ACT II -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- ACT III -- ACT IV -- Katherine D. Chapman Tillman -- References -- Aunt Betsy's Thanksgiving (c. 1914) -- CHARACTERS -- Scene I -- Scene II -- Scene III -- Mary Burrill -- References -- Aftermath (1919) -- Butterbeans and Susie -- References -- Black Vaudeville (c. 1920) -- Willis Richardson -- References -- The Chip Woman's Fortune (1923) -- THE CAST -- ACT ONE -- Zora Neale Hurston -- References -- The First One (1927) -- Joseph S. Mitchell -- References -- Help Wanted (1929) -- CHARACTERS -- Scene I -- Scene II -- Scene III -- Shirley Graham -- References -- Tom-Tom (1932) -- ORIGINAL SHORT CAST, JUNE 3 0 -JULY 3 , 1932 -- ACT I -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- Scene 4 -- Scene 5 -- Scene 6 -- ACT II -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- Scene 4 -- ACT III -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Sunday Evening in Harlem (Interiude) -- Scene 3 -- Scene 4 -- Scene 5 -- Scene 6 -- George A. Towns -- References -- The Sharecropper (1932) -- CAST OF CHARACTERS -- ACT 1 -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- May Miller -- References.

Nails and Thorns (1933) -- Persons of the play -- Owen Vincent Dodson -- References -- The Shining Town (1937) -- Abram Hill -- References -- On Strivers Row (1938) -- CHARACTERS -- SCENES -- BACKGROUND -- SCENE -- ACT I -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- ACT II -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- General Bibliography -- Biography and Reference -- History and Criticism -- Drama Anthologies -- Some Important Periodical Issues -- Backcover.