Wilsons legacy

August Wilson was an exceptional play write keeping true to what he was passionate about. Always kept to the same topic. The African American life and how it was during that time. He based most of his plays on his own experience. Even the good ones, where he had to switch schools because he wasn’t challenged enough. Wilson has over a dozen awards for his work from the tony award to the National humanities medal award by the President. Something that really stands out as his legacy is his 10 play cycle of the 20^th century. (NPR podcast) He is the first African American to complete a full cycle, all the others died before they could finish (Center for African American culture). That’s a major achievement for anyone let alone an African American at the time.  These plays shows what it was like for an African American to live in that time and how he grew up and strived to be great. It greatly goes with power because he is getting a theatre named after him because of his work and is the first African American to have a theatre named after him. That’s a very big achievement and not anyone could just get this for the first time. This further connects with race and language because he is the first African American with such prestigious awards for his works. And with such a meaningful topic and something that everyone in the nation at that time had something to do with, everyone could relate. They were either the cause or victim of the madness and they realized through Wilsons eyes.