[Gutenberg 53530] • Goat Alley: A Tragedy of Negro Life

Excerpt from Goat Alley: A Tragedy of Negro Life

In a dingy little hall on a side street Mr. Ernest Howard Culbertson began rehearsals of Goat Alley, his tragedy of N egro life in a Washington slum. The actors were, with one exception, amateurs - colored working people Who gave their time and services for the sake of What they felt to be an artistic expression of the life of their race. The author had no sociological intention; he had no ambition to be a propagandist. He had not even a special interest in the racial problem. He thought that he had come upon an action that has the quality of tragic inevitableness. He thought, furthermore, that tragedy does not reside in pomp and circumstance, but in the profound realities of human helpfulness and human suffering, and that poor Lucy Belle struggling to maintain her spirit ual integrity in Goat Alley was a protagonist Worthy of the sternest art and the largest sym pathy.

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