Joe Turner's Come and Gone Summary
At first Loomis gets angry and denies this but soon he admits it. In 1901 Joe Turner grabbed a group of men Loomis was talking to. Joe Turner S Come And Gone Introduction Written by Polly Barbour. . We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Ad Browse Discover Thousands of Book Titles for Less. It is the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play is set in Pittsburgh in 1911 against the historical backdrop of the Great Migration of African-Americans leaving the poverty and Jim Crow laws of the American South for employment and better lives in the manufacturing cities. Joe Turners Come and Gone is a play by August Wilson a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. The year is 1910 and the place Seth Hollys boarding house. It is 1911 in Pittsburgh at Seth and Bertha Hollys boardinghouse. When Joe Tu...