Miss Childress writes with a sharp, satiric touch. Character seems to interest her more than plot. Her characterizations are piercing, her observations devastating. Apparently, she feels the American race problem is a family fight but not in the sense that a Dixiecrat would claim the problem in the South is the South's alone. Miss Childress seems to believe there is a direct relationship between black and white, that these are grandchildren and cousins who are being denied human decency. She, therefore, calls on the nation to reexamine itself morally.
[Her] play, Wedding Band, suggests this in bold terms. Here she deals with an interracial couple that cannot marry because of southern laws. The play reaches a rousing climax when the Negro woman defines for a white woman exactly what the Negro has meant in terms of southern lives. (p. 221)
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