Lurana Donnels O’Malley is Professor Emerita in Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA, where she taught in the areas of Euro-American theatre history, research, and directing from 1991 to 2025.

• Acknowledgements viiAuthor’s Note viiiAbbreviations ixPart IHistorical Background and Critical Analyses 11 Washington Conscious: The George Washington Bicentennial of 1932 32 Idealizing Washington: Portrayals of an Enslaver 353 Black Voices and the Bicentennial: Performances By and For Black Citizens 604 Visions of Washington in DC: Three White-Authored Bicentennial Performances 875 Terrell Chooses Wheatley: The Creation of the Wheatley Pageant-Play 1336 The Trials of Mary Church Terrell: The Production of the Wheatley Pageant-Play 1757 Du Bois and the Bicentennial Crisis: George Washington and Black Folk 2018 Conclusion 225Part IIEdited Script 2299 Historical Pageant-Play Based on the Life of Phyllis Wheatley by Mary Church Terrell 231Index 266

Lurana Donnels O’Malley is Professor Emerita in Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA, where she taught in the areas of Euro-American theatre history, research, and directing from 1991 to 2025.

• Acknowledgements viiAuthor’s Note viiiAbbreviations ixPart IHistorical Background and Critical Analyses 11 Washington Conscious: The George Washington Bicentennial of 1932 32 Idealizing Washington: Portrayals of an Enslaver 353 Black Voices and the Bicentennial: Performances By and For Black Citizens 604 Visions of Washington in DC: Three White-Authored Bicentennial Performances 875 Terrell Chooses Wheatley: The Creation of the Wheatley Pageant-Play 1336 The Trials of Mary Church Terrell: The Production of the Wheatley Pageant-Play 1757 Du Bois and the Bicentennial Crisis: George Washington and Black Folk 2018 Conclusion 225Part IIEdited Script 2299 Historical Pageant-Play Based on the Life of Phyllis Wheatley by Mary Church Terrell 231Index 266

Lurana Donnels O’Malley is Professor Emerita in Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA, where she taught in the areas of Euro-American theatre history, research, and directing from 1991 to 2025.

• Acknowledgements viiAuthor’s Note viiiAbbreviations ixPart IHistorical Background and Critical Analyses 11 Washington Conscious: The George Washington Bicentennial of 1932 32 Idealizing Washington: Portrayals of an Enslaver 353 Black Voices and the Bicentennial: Performances By and For Black Citizens 604 Visions of Washington in DC: Three White-Authored Bicentennial Performances 875 Terrell Chooses Wheatley: The Creation of the Wheatley Pageant-Play 1336 The Trials of Mary Church Terrell: The Production of the Wheatley Pageant-Play 1757 Du Bois and the Bicentennial Crisis: George Washington and Black Folk 2018 Conclusion 225Part IIEdited Script 2299 Historical Pageant-Play Based on the Life of Phyllis Wheatley by Mary Church Terrell 231Index 266