Douglas Turner Ward's 'Days of Absence' and the Immigrant Crisis of Today.

Douglas Turner Ward's 'Days of Absence' and the Immigrant Crisis of Today.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Douglas Turner Ward (1930-2021) wrote a searing play, Days of Absence that depicted the way life might be like in a small southern town where all of the Black folks disappeared.  Predictably, white folks could not walk and chew gum, neither at one time nor at the same time. They could not boil water, feed their children, nor manage their own feeding. The fictional town just about falls apart in the absence of the Black labor ba…