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Cancelled due to scheduling conflict. It will be postponed for Fall 2008.

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Compiled, adapted and directed by Brenda P. Schleunes
TOURING THEATRE ENSEMBLE OF NORTH CAROLINA
A Narrative with music from the civil rights movement

Culled from actual quotes by the people involved, this drama presents Fannie Lou Hamer, an unflinching women of great courage who energetically and single mindedly pursued her right to vote and become what she considered to be a first class citizen. Performed by four actors who portray the wide variety of characters Hamer encounters on her journey toward equality, the production offers a compelling, informative and entertaining program for audiences of both young people and adults and provides them with the opportunity to become acquainted with one of the “unsung” heroines of the civil rights movement.

I had to write down where I worked and I knew why. You see, when you put by whom you are employed, you’re fired by the time you get back home. Well, anyway, this registrar brought out a big black book and pointed to a section of the Mississippi constitution that I had to read. It was a section dealing with defacto laws and I knowed as much about a facto law as a horse knows about Christmas Day. I flunked the test. Fannie Lou HamerSo then I had to get over there on the bed flat on my stomach, and that man beat me until he give out. As I got off the cot, I nearly passed out. Fannie Lou Hamer

People have said: Few companies can be relied on to provide such thought-provoking dramas, shows that will have audience members pondering and arguing weeks after the curtain has come down.– Leslie Mizell, News and Record

Admission
10:30 AM $5 per student
Chaperones/Teachers admitted free
(Call for Reservations of school groups)

7:00 PM $10 Adults
$5 students & Sr. Citizens