| Billie Jean Young to perform Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light at the Humphrey Institute February 12
Billie Jean Young, an Alabama-based
actor and poet, will perform her one-person play, Fannie Lou Hamer: This
Little Light, at the Humphrey Institute on Sunday afternoon, February 12.
The event will be co-sponsored by the Cargill Company, the SuperValu Corporation,
and the Humphrey Forum. The performance is part of a series of public programs
based on the museum exhibit, Making Freedoms Mark: The Voting Rights Act
of 1965, at the Humphrey Forum. A reception before the performance will
begin at 2 p.m. The 60-minute play will begin at 3:30 p.m. The exhibit also
will be available for viewing. The performance, reception, and exhibit are free
and open to the public.
The show honors the career and life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist
and sharecropper from Sunflower County, Mississippi. Young has shared the life
story of Hamer for more than two decades. The play has been presented around
the world from Harvard to Harlem to Beijing. For more information, click
here.
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