A Sunday Morning in the South

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A Sunday Morning in the South is a one-act play by Harlem Renaissance writer Georgia Douglas Johnson that powerfully depicts racial injustice and the terror of lynching in the early 20th-century American South.

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instanceOf one-act play
theatrical work
addresses injustice in the legal system
racial violence
associatedWith African American theatre
anti-lynching plays
author Georgia Douglas Johnson NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creatorEthnicity African American woman writer
depicts terror of lynching
focusesOn African American experience under Jim Crow
form one act
genre drama
social protest drama
hasAuthorRole Georgia Douglas Johnson as playwright NERFINISHED
intendedMedium stage
language English
literaryPeriod early 20th-century American literature
mainTheme lynching
racial injustice
racial terror in the American South
movement Harlem Renaissance
notableFor anti-lynching message
portrayal of lynching from Black community perspective
portrays Black family life in the segregated South
settingLocation American South NERFINISHED
settingPeriod early 20th century
socialIssue mob violence
racism in the American South
subjectMatter racial oppression in the Jim Crow South
tone tragic
writer Georgia Douglas Johnson NERFINISHED

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Georgia Douglas Johnson notableWork A Sunday Morning in the South