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...knocking her down. Her hysterical screams bring a crowd. Unwilling to implicate her lover, she babbles that a Negro attacked her. Among the colored folk arrested for questioning is Lonnie. Unlike the other dejected crows in the lineup, big Lonnie refuses to drool servilely: "Yassuh, cap'n. . . . Nawssuh. cap'n. . . . Dat's right, cap'n. . . ." He has been helping a white labor organizer recruit a stevedores' union on the Stuyvesant Docks. He stubbornly stands for his rights, makes a bad impression at the police station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 30, 1934 | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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