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Bourbon at the Border by Pearl Cleage
2014 marks the 50th Anniversary of the historic Voting Rights Act in America. What price was paid to make that happen?
About the Play: When May and Charlie joined hundreds of other Americans who went to Mississippi in the summer of 1964 for a massive voter registration drive, they had no idea their lives were about to change forever. As students at Howard University, their campus activism had been met with calls to their parents and threats of expulsion. The stakes in Mississippi were a lot higher. White supremacists, outraged at the challenge to their segregated way of life, responded with violence that left three civil rights workers dead and many wounded. Years later, May and Charlie are still searching for a way back from the damage that was done to them during that long ago "Freedom Summer. "BOURBON AT THE BORDER takes a look at the lives of two ordinary people who gave everything they had to the African American freedom struggle but who have now been largely forgotten. In telling May and Charlie s story, BOURBON AT THE BORDER puts a human face on the unknown soldiers of the civil rights movement by refusing to romanticize them even as it honors their specific sacrifices and the price they paid.
About the Playwright: Pearl Cleage is an African-American author whose work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been widely recognized. Her novel What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day was a 1998 Oprah Book Club selection. Cleage teaches drama at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.
Directed by Willie Judson
Starring: Roosevelt Tidwell, Shanntina Moore, Hugh Davis and Candace Whitfield
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LocationTheaterLoft home of Ujima Company (View)
545 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
United States
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| Minimum Age: 12 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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