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Please join us for a special screening of Passage Theatre’s Janet Wide Awake: The Hedgepeth-Williams Dream, a play about the history of desegregation in Trenton as told through the stories of two mothers, Gladys Hedgepeth and Berline Williams. Light refreshments will be served. Janet Wide Awake: The Hedgepeth-Williams Dream Written by David Lee White, Richard Bradford, and the students at Hedgepeth-Williams Middle School of the Arts ​Directed by Andrew Binger ​In the 1940s, Gladys Hedgepeth and Berline Williams challenged the Trenton school formerly known as Junior High No. 2 and its policy of segregation after their children were not admitted due to their race. ​After a historic legal battle, the New Jersey Supreme Court struck down the widespread practice of segregation in New Jersey public schools. ​Last year, Passage Theatre partnered with Hedgepeth-Williams Middle School of the Arts to complete a residency wherein Passage teaching artists worked with 17 seventh-grade st

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