the college level and enjoyed stints at ATLANTA
UNIVERSITYand Hampton Institute, two histori-
cally black colleges and universities. While teach-
ing, Dodson continued to prepare his work for the
stage. His master’s thesis inspired “Divine Com-
edy,” his first play and a work staged at Yale. An-
other Renaissance-era piece was entitled “Garden
of Time,” a verse drama in which he revisited the
story of Medea.
Over the course of his career and in the years
beyond the Harlem Renaissance, Dodson wrote a
diverse number of works and was still publishing
just before his death in 1983.
Bibliography
Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem Was in Vogue.New
York: Knopf, 1981.
Domingo, Wilfred Adolphus (1889–1968)
The West Indian–born black nationalist and edi-
tor of Negro World,the newspaper of the UNIVER-
SAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION that
was established in the United States by MARCUS
GARVEYof Jamaica. Domingo eventually cut ties
with Garvey, whom he saw as an unpredictable
threat to African-American domestic interests,
and became a highly regarded contributor of es-
says and nonfictional prose pieces to the Messen-
ger. The anti-West Indian sentiments of that
magazine, founded by A. PHILIPRANDOLPHand
CHANDLEROWENin 1917, ultimately prompted
Domingo to establish his own publication, the
EMANCIPATOR.He became one of the period’s
black Communists and began contributing his
time and writing skills to the AFRICANBLACK
BROTHERHOOD, a socialist organization affiliated
with the COMMUNISTPARTY.
Bibliography
Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem Was in Vogue.New
York: Knopf, 1981.
“Door Stop”May Miller(1930)
A short story by MAYMILLERSULLIVANthat ap-
peared in the May 1930 issue of Carolina Magazine,
the student literary magazine of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“Double Trouble”Jessie Fauset(1923)
A short story by JESSIEFAUSET, literary editor of
THECRISISwhose setting and plot rehearsed some
of the same racial tensions that Fauset would ad-
dress several years later in PLUMBUN,her 1929
novel.
The story, which appeared in the August and
September 1923 issues of the magazine and in-
cluded illustrations by artist Laura Wheeler, was set
in Edendale, New Jersey, a community with a
strictly observed social and racial hierarchy. The
protagonists, Angelique Murray and Malory Ford-
ham, are high school students and in love with
each other. They are part of the African-American
community that lives in close connection with the
upper-class white community made up of “a
wealthy and leisure class of whites, men of affairs,
[and] commuters having big business interests in
Philadelphia, Trenton, Newark, and even New
York.” The young couple, however, is unable to ex-
press freely their affection for one another because
of the watchful nature of the community and the
Murray family’s general prohibition against boys.
When the two are seen together at a local picnic,
they begin to realize the widespread resistance to
their involvement. Malory does not understand his
family’s prejudice against Angelique but is deter-
mined “like many another fond lover to acquaint
others with his treasure to show off not only this
unparalleled gem, but himself too.” The two are
unable to spend time together that afternoon, and
the obstructions that arise prompt Malory to insist
that Angelique accompany him home the next day
in order to meet his family. This planned introduc-
tion does not take place either, and she is forced to
leave the front porch and wander home alone.
When Malory then fails to keep their regular ap-
pointment and seems to run from her, she pursues
him desperately. She wonders whether it is the
stigma of her cousin Laurentine’s illegitimacy and
the relationship between her Aunt Sal and her
white employer Ralph Courtney that has forced the
Fordhams to reject her. When she finally confronts
Malory, however, she is shocked to learn that she is
in fact his half sister. Angelique is devastated by the
news that her mother stole away with Malory’s fa-
ther and that her reputation is forever linked to the
unseemly affair that her mother allowed between
herself and the patriarch of a respectable family of120 Domingo, Wilfred Adolphus