THE STORY: A liberal white couple, entertain a sophisticated black couple in their rather strange, sheet-shrouded living room. The whites, filled with hypocrisy, and the blacks, concealing their contempt, put on a show of super-cordiality and friendship. But the false brightness soon palls, and the host and hostess become rattled at the simplest request from their guests. Then the black couple leave and the white couple gleefully tear away the sheets-revealing a horrendous array of plaster pickaninnies and other racist artifacts, while Old Black Joe blasts forth on the hi-fi.

Brotherhood.

Literature & Fiction

Douglas Turner Ward

Ward, Douglas Turner

Dramas & Plays

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Book by Douglas Turner Ward, Ward, Douglas Turner

Happy Ending and A Day of Absence. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

History & Criticism

Dramatist's Play Service

THE STORY: Concerns the bigoted governor of a Deep South state, who is blackmailed by his beautiful black mistress, and her procurer, into turning over all the money that graft has put in his strongbox--and also into persuading his constituents, ass

The Reckoning.

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