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Flyer for "In White America"

Free Southern Theater

Amistad Research Center

Amistad Research Center
New Orleans, United States

In the summer of 1964, also known as Freedom Summer, the Free Southern Theater adapted the play, In White America by Martin Duberman. The theater performed throughout 22 communities in Mississippi and in New Orleans, Louisiana. The play depicted the social climate of the era, and specifically, the murders of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field workers - Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner. They were murdered on June 21, 1964, in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by Ku Klux Klan members.

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  • Title: Flyer for "In White America"
  • Creator: Free Southern Theater
  • Subject Keywords: Free Southern Theater, African American theater--History--20th century, American drama--Southern States
  • Type: document
  • Rights: Physical rights are retained by the Amistad Research Center. The materials in this exhibition are being made available for personal and scholarly research use only. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. If you are the rightful copyright holder of an item represented in this exhibition and wishes to have it removed, please submit a request to reference@amistadresearchcenter.org including proof of ownership and clear identification of the work, preferably with URL.
  • Repository: Amistad Research Center
  • Extent: 1 p.
  • Date: 1964
  • Collection: Free Southern Theater records
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