2.1.23: "Down in Mississippi: A Gospel Play with Music", 2007-2020, and undated
Scope and Contents
Contains drafts of playscripts, playbills and programs, audio-visual recordings, letter of agreements and actor's contracts; expense reports; Booklet to support the stage production entitled "Mississippi Summer Project: Volunteer Manual 1964;" and notecard correspondence.
Dates
- Creation: 2007-2020, and undated
Creator
- From the Collection: Brown, Carlyle (Person)
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
Extent
From the Collection: 19.18 linear feet (46 legal size boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
"Down in Mississippi takes place during the Freedom Summer campaign to register African-Americans to vote in the dangerous, segregated world of Mississippi in 1964, and explores the transformational experience of three young civil rights activists who leave their safe northern homes to go down to Mississippi to try to change the world and discover that before they can change the world, they will have to change themselves. A celebration of the movement that gave birth to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voter's Rights Act of 1965."
"The play is a commission for the Theater Department and the Center for American and World Cultures at Miami University in Ohio. Miami of Ohio enfolded a former women's college called Western College, where in 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organized a registration drive in Mississippi to get Black Mississippians to register to vote."
Repository Details
Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository
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