growing awareness on the part of many African Americans during the 1950s and 1960s of their African cultural heritage. The idea of African Americans returning to Africa, however, had been around well before the turn of the nineteenth century.
Research “back to Africa” movements (like the American Colonization Society, founded in 1816, or the Universal Negro Improvement Association and its Black Star Line of the 1920s). Explain how themes, assumptions, and ideas present in these movements also inform the play.