Erma Mozelle Duffy Lewis founded the Sojourner Truth Players in Fort Worth with five others in 1972. The company stemmed from an organization for girls called the Junior Debutantes of Fort Worth and produced two plays a year until 1991. They produced a number of highly acclaimed memorable productions including James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones, Ossie Davis’ Purlie and Marc Connelly’s Green Pastures. They also practiced nontraditional casting with all-black casts in plays by white playwrights with characters written for white actors, as in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond.