Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women

Title: Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women
This edition: "Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women" . Ed. Kathy A. Perkins and Judith L. Stephens. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. x+423 pp.
Table of contents: ● Sandra L. Richards / Foreword
● Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION
● Judith L. Stephens / Lynching Dramas and Women : History and Critical Context
● Kathy A. Perkins / The Impact of Lynching on the Art of African American Women

THE PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Rachel (1916)
● Mary Powell Burrill / Aftermath (1919)
● Corrie Crandall Howell / Forfeit (1925)
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / A Sunday Morning in the South (1925)
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Safe (c.1929)
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Blue-Eyed Black Boy (c.1930)
● Regina M. Anderson Andrews / Climbing Jacob's Ladder (1931)
● Annie Nathan Meyer / Black Souls (1932)
● May Miller / Nails and Thorns (1933)
● Ann Seymour Link / Lawd, Does You Undahstan'? (1936)
● Evelyn Keller Caldwell / Voice in the Wilderness (1944)
● Lillian Smith / Strange Fruit (1945)
● Endesha Ida Mae Holland / Miss Ida B. Wells (1983)
● Sandra Seaton / The Bridge Party (1989)
● Michon Boston / Iola's Letter (1994)

● Appendix I. The Writer’s League Against Lynching
● Appendix 2. Table of Lynching Dramas
● Bibliography
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Item Number: A0326