Chicago's South Side in the 1920s Struggling to keep his dreams alive and his family together, Victor Mason is an educated black man reduced to working on building sites. His loyalty to Marcus Garvey's Back to Africa movement clashes with his family's pursuit of the American Dream despite the twin evils of the Depression and of ubiquitous racism.<BR>Never seen outside America until 2007, Theodere Ward's family drama, Big White Fog, remains as poignant today as it did when it 1937 - and on to New York, where it was produced by the Negro Playwrights' Company, of which Ward was a co-founder with, among others, Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes.<BR>Big White Fog is published alongside Michael Attenborough's production at the Almeida Theatre, London, the first ever staging outside the USA. The volume also contains extensive introductory material by writers, thinkers and activists such as Marcus Garvey, Richard Wright and James Baldwin.