W.E.B. DuBois had very specific ideas about how the Negros , the New Negros, should approach their art. Propaganda. Black entertainers on stage, on canvas or prose or poem by the capable New Negros should promote the image of the race in a way that changes the Old Negro image in the eyes of whites. So the Krigwa Players, and the playwrights were expected to write and perform works that would be acceptable to DuBois ideas. Basically his voice

There have been many debates on what the Negro Theaters should represent since they were cropping up in cities all over the country in the 1920’s.