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''' Simon the Cyrenian ''' (1917) is a play by [[Ridgely Torrence]]. 

==Abstract==
The All-Black drama was one of the ''Three Plays for a Negro Theatre'' by the white lyric poet [[Ridgely Torrence]]. Simon was said to have been a black African who had carried Jesus' cross to Calvary. The play marks a turning-point in the way Afro-Africans were presented on the American stage.

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