A Sunday Morning in the South is a play about lynching written by Georgia Douglas Johnson.
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Plot
A Sunday Morning in the South is set in the kitchen of Sue Jones' two-room house in a small town in the South in 1924. The play opens with Sue making breakfast for her grandson Tom: she makes light rolls and sausage. Tom takes a long time to get out of bed, and Sue says, "It’s as hard to git yawll out of the bed on Sunday morning as it is to pull hen’s teeth." They discuss the events of the previous night, saying that the police are trying to catch a black man who supposedly attacked and possibly raped a white woman near the market. They say that white people are in blackface and they could have done it; also, that they only see color and could possibly arrest the wrong man.
Songs
The show is set next to a church, so, throughout the show, there is gospel music heard that interrupts the dialogue. The songs include: