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May Miller

MAY MILLER

  (1899 - 1995)
Nationality:    African American
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aka May Miller Sullivan

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below is a list of May Miller's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bog Guide, The         Christophe's Daughters         Cuss'd Thing, The         Freedom's Children On the March         Graven Images         Harriet Tubman         Nails And Thorns         Riding the Goat         Samory         Scratches         Sojourner's Truth         Stragglers In the Dust         Within the Shadow

Bog Guide, The

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Awarded third prize in the Opportunity Literary Contest magazine, May 1925

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Contained in: "Prize Plays and Other One Acts Published in Periodicals" published by G K Hall 1996   978-0783814360

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One Act

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Christophe's Daughters

Synopsis:
It is the fatal day of a black king's reign and the two princesses, alone in the deserted throne room, face the suicide of their Father and the tragedy of revolution.

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Negro History in Thirteen Plays, ed. by Willis Richardson and May Miller, Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1935   -

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Genre:
Historical MeloDrama One Act

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Cuss'd Thing, The

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Received honorable mention in the second Opportunity Literary Contest magazine, May 1926

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Freedom's Children On the March

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Commencement, Frederick Douglass High School, Baltimore, Md    1943

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Genre:
Dramatic Folk Ballad

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Graven Images

Synopsis:
the introduction of prejudice (in biblical times) when Miriam spoke against Moses on account of the Ethiopian woman he had married and the fancied reaction of their youngest son

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Black theater USA, ed. by James V. Hatch and Ted Shine, New York: Free Pr, 1974   -

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Genre:
Children's Play One Act

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Harriet Tubman

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About the extraordinary feats of this lone black woman who, on numerous trips, led groups of slaves through the Underground Railway to freedom

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Negro History in Thirteen Plays, ed. by Willis Richardson and May Miller, Washihgton, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1935   -

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Genre:
Historical Drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 BM, 3 BF, 2 WM, extras

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Nails And Thorns

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Awarded third prize in Southern University Contest, 1933

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Riding the Goat

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Problem a young black physician has reconciling his ideas with the mores of the community in which he practices and how the girl he loves solves the problem

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Plays and Pageants from the Life of the Negro, ed. by Willis Richardson and May Miller, Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1930   -

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Genre:
comedy One Act

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Samory

Synopsis:
the story of a fabled leader of the African Sudan and his strategy that outwitted a French scheme to forestall the capture of a native town

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Negro History in Thirteen Plays, ed. by Willis Richardson and May Miller, Washihgton, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1935   -

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Genre:
Historical Drama One Act

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Scratches

Synopsis:
A pool game determines the future life plans of two men and one woman-the aim at one thing that hits two

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Carolina Magazine, vol. 59, no. 7, N.C, Apr. 1929
Contained in: "Prize Plays and Other One Acts Published in Periodicals" published by G K Hall 1996   978-0783814360

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Sojourner's Truth

Synopsis:
One of the many occasions on which Sojourner Truth's preaching was effective, changing the minds of a group of white boys bent on destruction

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Negro History in Thirteen Plays, ed. by Willis Richardson and May Miller, Washihgton, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1935   -

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Genre:
Historical Drama One Act

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Stragglers In the Dust

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Within the Shadow

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Awarded first prize. Howard University Drama Award 1920

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