ABSTRACT
This chapter begins a discussion on the ways that African American spirituality informed the commentary that August Wilson made on the social and political happenings of each decade of the twentieth century in the plays of the Pittsburgh Cycle. To cover all of the religious symbolism in all of the plays would take a volume of work much more substantial than this one. Nevertheless, this small contribution to the greater discussion will help the reader begin to understand that African American spirituality is ever present, even when it is not observably apparent.
