Black Souls (play)

Black Souls is a play in six scenes by Annie Nathan Meyer. The play depicts the lynching of an innocent black man on a college campus and concerns themes of miscegenation and bigotry in the Southern United States in the post World War I era. The work is one of the first "lynching dramas" written by a white woman, and for this reason the play has remained of interest to theatre scholars. Written in 1924 and first performed in 1932 on Broadway, Meyer was assisted in crafting her play through input from black writers Zora Neale Hurston and James Weldon Johnson.

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