Black Theatre, USA: Plays by African Americans

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Three years before America entered World War II, playwright Owen Dodson mocked the celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation's seventy-fifth anniversary with these lines: This is a rusty time to sing in: A rusty broken hingeless time: The temperamental doors of liberty undone, Undone and lying before the lintels Of the doorway in this winter like dead gangsters.

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