Word: niggertown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could devote his entire mind and energy to the 47 Workshop. In the first two weeks after his return to Cambridge, Wolfe submitted the first acts of six projected plays to Professor Baker. At Baker's request he concentrated on one of these plays, which he had tentatively titled Niggertown. During the course of the winter he developed it into an unconventional ten scene form, and renamed it Welcome to Our City as a concession to the remaining vestiges of Cambridge abolutionism. It was performed in Agassiz Theater on May 12 and 13, 1923, and is generally thought to have...
...found it little changed. The drugstore would still not serve him water in a glass, gave him a paper cup. Negro schoolchildren could still get books from the public library only by sending their teacher for them. But there were a few differences. Amid the shanties of "Niggertown" were rows of neat new houses which Negro veterans had built, with federal...
...anti-Negro dialogue ("dangerous" anti-white terns have been deleted in Boston and elsewhere). But where "Home of the Brave" and other movies dealt with discrimination and persecution, and found them to have personal solutions, "No Way Out" deals with group conflict and war. For members of opposing armies--Niggertown and the white slum of Beaver Canal--there are no individual solutions...