"And Yet They Paused" and "A Bill to be Passed": Newly Recovered Lynching Dramas by Georgia Douglas Johnson

African American Review, Fall, 1999 by Judith Stephens

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-----. "Racial Violence and Representation: Performative Strategies in Lynching Dramas of the 1920s." Forthcoming in African American Review 33.4 (1999).

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Judith Stephens is Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, College of Liberal Arts, at Penn State University. Her article "Racial Violence and Representation: Performance Strategies in Lynching Dramas of the 1920s" will appear in the Winter number of African American Review. Professor Stephens wishes to thank the Penn State Schuylkill Campus Advisory Board for a research award that provided the funding for her research and travel in Washington, DC. She also wishes to thank the NAACP and the Library of Congress for preserving the plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson.