Through a series of vignettes, Leslie Lee explores the history of Black Americans, from a group of slaves meeting in secret to discuss the Bible just before the Civil War, to a couple debating the Back-To-Africa movement during the Harlem Renaissance, to another couple resting their feet after marching in Montgomery.

"Nothing less than a history of Black America from the eve of the Civil War to the Montgomery bus boycott a century later. Given the subject, one might expect a work roughly as long as Roots II, but Mr. Lee has found a more economical, not to mention easi SFI Standard-FL Standard No Yes No No Columbine Cum Laude 5683 Title Short Play Comedy Interior Columbine awakes to find a thought in her head. This leads the pretty flirt, who has been pursuing Harlequin for five hundred years, into the arms of a stodgy professor, who whisks her away for a mortarboard" marriage. Harlequin, always so concerned with himself, discovers he has a broken heart. With the aid of Pierrot, Harlequin recaptures for an instant what he loves; but has he truly learned that, when we change what we most desire, we destroy it? Only Columbine knows and she will never tell.