Radio program script.

Caption title.

"The script was prepared by John Barnes"--Leaf 22.

Leaf [1] on stationery of WBBM.

Dated Sept. 2, 1942.

Dealer's description of Beinecke Library copy suggests additional unattributed authorship to Owen Dodson.

Owen Dodson wrote a half-hour installment of "The Midwest mobilizes," about the Midwestern black community's participation in World War II, that was broadcast on WBBM, Chicago, in May 1943. Cf. B.L. Peterson, Early black American playwrights and dramatic writers, p. 59.

Mimeograph.

World War, 1939-1945 > African Americans > Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Middle West > Drama.

Discrimination in employment > Middle West > Drama.

African Americans > Middle West > Drama.

African Americans > Civil rights.

United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.