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Willis Richardson

American playwright

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African American literature

In African American literature: Playwrights and editors
…also inspired dramatists such as Willis Richardson, whose The Chip Woman’s Fortune (produced 1923) was the first nonmusical play by an African American to be produced on Broadway. African American editors such as Charles S. Johnson, whose monthly Opportunity was launched in 1923 under the auspices of the National Urban…
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Harlem Renaissance

In Harlem Renaissance: Drama
…Marita Bonner, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Willis Richardson, Eulalie Spence, Frank Wilson, and Randolph Edmonds. Richardson was the most prolific. Much influenced by Locke’s ideas, he focused his early plays on folk experience in the South, but over time his plays came to have more of an educational or encouraging message.…
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