"Wedding Band" by Alice Childress is the story of an interracial love/hate relationship between two Southern lovers. The show is set in South Carolina in 1918. “Wedding Band” really captures the essence of the time and place in which the show is set. That era (1915-1931) is one of the most significant in the history of this young nation. The decade of the 1920s is often characterized as a time of American prosperity and optimism. It was the "Roaring Twenties," the decade of bathtub gin, the Model T, the $5 workday, the first transatlantic flight, and the movie. It was also a high point in African American history. The Harlem Renaissance took shape; it was a time when African Americans began an intellectual movement. Harlem became the center of African American culture. Most African Americans have started a movement to rethink their values ​​and appreciate their roots and Africa. In this period the "Great Migration" began. About two million Southern blacks moved to Northern industrial centers in hopes of escaping the oppressive nature of the Deep South. However, for every positive there is a downside. The decade was a time of growing intolerance and isolation. Americans retreated into a provincialism evidenced by the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the anti-radical hysteria of the Palmer Raids, restrictive immigration laws, and Prohibition. The flu and World War I led to an alarming number of Americans dying prematurely. Racist riots spread across the country, and protests in support and condemnation of racism were the norm. Life in the South was in most cases unbearable for blacks, and many felt that the Southern atmosphere had such a suffocating effect on them that escape was the best option. . African Americans showed their inner pain, little by little proving to racist Southern whites that they were someone, not property, but a human being with self-worth and dignity who should be treated equally. The main place that Southern blacks were blinded by were the urban places of the North. These were the places that caught their attention. Many of the enslaved Southerners or sons and daughters of enslaved Africans began to migrate to Northern cities. These were the places where they began to live a life of independence and freedom. The migration of southern blacks was a success.