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Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in Harlem

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describes the play as depicting vice and crime with "vernacular and slang-ridden dialogue". It drew praise from white critics and mixed reactions from African American critics, some of whom lamented its focus on the lower echelons of Harlem society. It played for 93 showings and then toured in other
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and was successful, featuring a depiction of a migrant family coming to New York for a better life but meeting hardship in the city.
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Scott, Daniel M. III (Fall 2004). "Harlem Shadows: Re-evaluating Wallace Thurman's
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Wallace Thurman
William Jourdan Rapp
Apollo Theater
Harlem Renaissance
Encyclopædia Britannica
MELUS
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10.2307/4141858
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4141858
ProQuest
203668407


"Wallace Henry Thurman: Harlem Renaissance"
"Death of William Jourdan Rapp, 1942"
"Harlem | play by Thurman and Rapp | Britannica"
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