Legacy of August Wilson

Legacy of August Wilson

August Wilson’s was one of the first African-Americans to have a huge serious of plays, this is a legacy itself. August Wilson’s legacy was his influence his motivation and his physical legacies. His influence on African Americans and specifically the African-American actors, after him shining as a play writer, his plays of the African-American struggle in 20th-century America into a massive 10-play cycle opened opportunities to the African-American actors by giving them a role in his plays and because his plays were huge it was something great for the actors. His motivation to the African-Americans, was that he writing despite the pressure and the racism, stepping up, not accepting injustice and writing plays about the struggle African-Americans faced, showed that their voices can be heard throw his plays. The physical influence which is  Virginia Theatre in New York City's Broadway was named after him because of his huge influence he was the first African American to have a theatre be named after him, The vacated Republican street was renamed as August Wilson’s way. His legacy reveals a larger message about how race, power and language intersect by writing the plays of the African- American struggle he used their language to show how the race is losing their rights by the power of the race of the other, so his plays was a voice that every African-American wanted to be heard. His legacy showed by using plays as a type of language the power of injustice and racism can be defeated.