<I>The Man Who Went to War</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1944
name: label: Written by
content: Langston Hughes, American, 1902 - 1967
label: Subject of
content: Paul Robeson, American, 1898 - 1976
notes: label: Description
content: A radio play titled “The Man Who Went to War” by Langston Hughes. The play is typed on twenty-two off-white pages in black ink. The first page has [“THE MAN WHO WENT TO WAR” / by / Langston Hughes] typed at the top. Typed below the title is an introduction to be read by Paul Robeson. It begins [Hello, Britain. This is Paul Robeson speaking to you / from New York. Tonight we are bringing you a new / play by one of our leading poets, Langston Hughes. / It is called, “The Man Who Went to War”, and it is / acted and sung for you by an all-Negro cast, - just / a few of your thirteen million Negro allies in the / United States. We, too, are a part of this great / global war against fascism. Many of us are on the / Allied fighting fronts all around the world from New / Guinea to Italy, Fighting side by side with the / soldiers of all the United Nations…] The play begins at the bottom of the first page. It is about an African American soldier named Johnny who decides to join the war and his family that stays behind. Several songs are included in the play. The other twenty-one pages of the play are numbered at the top. The backs of the pages are blank.
place: label: Place depicted
content: United States, North and Central America
label: Place used
content: England, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
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content: Actors
label: Topic
content: Drama (Theatre)
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Radio
label: Topic
content: Singers (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: World War II
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Documents and Manuscripts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2019.28.30a-v
objectType: label: Type
content: plays
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Estate of Langston Hughes
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
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