Black Theatre USA Revised and Expanded Edition, Vol. 1 
Subtitle: Plays by African Americans, The Early Period 1847 to 1938 (Black Theatre USA)
Contributors: James V. Hatch (Editor)
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Free Press
Published: March 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780684823089
Subjects: Drama texts, plays; Anthologies (multiple authors); Afro-Americans; Plays / Drama; American drama; Drama; American; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Performing Arts / General; Afro-American authors; African American authors
First sentence: 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.