Staging FaithIn the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U. S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive migration from the rural south to the urbanindustrial centers of the north, scripts penned by dozens of black playwrights reflected cultural tensions,