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Originally set to be produced onstage in March, 2020, the world premiere of playwright, producer and educator Cynthia Grace Robinson’s “Freedom Summer” will instead become a streamed film version from Feb. 12 to 28. N.C. Black Repertory Company worked with Appalachian State University to make the new play a reality.
Robinson’s story of two sisters takes place on one day: Aug. 4, 1964.
Nora Heeley (played by Mariah Guillmette) is starting a new life “passing” as a white woman. Her sister, Carrie Carrington (Niklya Boxley) travels to the Deep South to register Black people to vote. The bodies of three civil rights workers have just been found in Mississippi. ....

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