Still, I recognize that I probably wouldn't know how the hell to act back in the day. I am talking about those days that our grandparents grew up in before they moved north. I know it
was hard, from what I hear. And I don't even like to think about the pain and suffering that they experienced but seem to no longer be afflicted by. It seems like maybe those feeling of animosity and resentment toward the oppression of blacks back then has been passed down to me. That's why its always tense for me to watch a movie like, "A Time to Kill" or to read "To Kill A Mockingbird".
Here's an excerpt of a review from last week's edition of The Chicago Reader of a new play that relives the pre-civil rights Mississippi experience ...
Endesha Ida Mae Holland's 1991 autobiographical play is compo
sed of short vignettes that chronicle her life and times in post-World War II, pre-civil rights Greenwood Mississippi. The script moves so quickly from one memory to the next that at times their impact is blunted, and in the end the fragments never quite click together into a unified whole. Still, director Audrey Morgan, and her talented cast kept me enthralled.
From the Mississippi Delta
Runs through January 11, 2009
at the ETA Creative Arts Foundation
7558 S. South Chicago
773-752-3955
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