Freedom Riders
By Tom Quinn
Freedom Riders is a one-act play that needs 4 performers (2 women, 2 men). Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 4 performers
- Roles
- 2 women, 2 men
- Cast notes
- 2 m, 2 w (playing 18 roles)
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
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Synopsis
Freedom Riders is set in 1961 as two young women from Harvard try to decide if they should join the Freedom Rides of the 1960s. As you travel along you will meet Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Bobby Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, W.E.B. Dubois and many others who fought both for and against our nation's struggle for Civil Rights. Experience sit-ins and lunch counters and the dark days of Jim Crow. Learn the history as four performers bring this struggle alive though the words
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