Additional Resources

The Play and Its Context

  • Adler, Peter and Nicholas Barnard. African Majesty: The Textile Art of the Ashanti and Ewe. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1992.

  • Asante, Molefi K. and Mark T. Mattson. The African-American Atlas. New York: Macmillan, 1998.

  • Ciment, James. Atlas of African-American History. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
  • Franklin, John Hope and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

  • Glasco, Laurence A., ed. The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.

  • Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. Horton, eds. A History of the African American People. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
  • Johnson, Thomas L. and Nina J. Root, eds. Camera Man’s Journey: Julian Dimock’s South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002.

  • Pittsburgh Revealed: Photographs Since 1850. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1997.

  • Roberts, Paul, ed. Points in Time: Building a Life in Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1996.

Additional Works by August Wilson

  • Fences. Plume, 1995.
  • King Hedley II. Theatre Communications Group, 2005.
  • Jitney. Overlook TP, 2003.
  • Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Plume, 1992.
  • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Plume, 1988.
  • The Piano Lesson. Plume, 1990.
  • Seven Guitars. Plume, 1997.
  • Two Trains Running. Plume, 1993.

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McCarter Theatre Center

Created in conjunction with the McCarter Theatre production October 11 - October 30, 2005

Venue: Matthews Theater
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