Thursday, April 30, 2015

August Wilson Legacy


August Wilson legacy is great and respected, he was local play writer in Pittsburgh and in Pittsburgh there is a building name after him it’s called “August Wilson Center for African American culture” according to Bill Schackner. Unfortunately the building that has his name faced some financial problems and some local members of a school board banded together to fix the issue.  One member named Randall Taylor said “as long as people are reading, they will be reading about Pittsburgh, and that’s what August Wilson did for us, we owe him. Taylor also said “the city cannot let a building that bears Wilson’s named be associated with failure, according to Bill Schackner. This is important because there a lot of people who respect Wilson’s Legacy so much they don’t want to tarnish his great legacy.

What his legacy reveals is that when Wilson would write his Main topic would be about the lives of African Americans and what they go through daily. By him doing this it opened up the dialogue to talk to about race problems in the United States. Also when he would write it was true to how African American’s would speak at the time, which showed the difference in language in the United States. Lastly the fact he had so much power to influence people to see his plays and the fact that his plays made people feel comfortable with talking about race and Language in public and private settings as well.  



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