This play is labeled a Documentary Drama and is well suited for stage as well as the classroom. For high schools, however, it is primarily a teaching play, and is useful in class because it reveals an insight to the civil rights struggle that is not detailed in most junior and senior high school classes. As an actor and a substitute teacher, I have classroom experience and recall students who regard reading assignments in Government and History as grueling. Down the hall, however, in drama class, those same students relish the opportunity to portray the role of an historic person, deliver a monologue, or discuss their character’s role in a real event which occurred two generations in the past. The last one-third of the play is devoted to the Selma incident and trial.
Details
- Publication Date
- Jul 29, 2017
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781387946716
- Category
- Law
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Don Edward Black
Specifications
- Pages
- 66
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)