 Civil rights dramas

From the end of the Second World War to the beginning of the McCarthy era (1945–1950), the American professional theatre produced twenty shows on civil rights, nine of them on Broadway.Off-Broadway and out of town shows displayed a wider array of moral stances, ranging from gentle persuasion of "Florence" (1949) by Alice Childress and the religious fervor of "Trial by Fire" (1947) by George Dunne to the activism of "Earth and Stars" (1946) by Randolph Edmonds.