The Plays
- The Parchman Hour
Mike Wiley Productions’ newest work commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders.
- A Game Apart
A Game Apart provides a glimpse of Jackie Robinson’s life during a bygone era of separate and unequal locker rooms, of whites only hotels, and of restaurants with only a back door for colored athletes to enter.
- One Noble Journey
Henry “Box” Brown was an African American born into slavery in 1816 in Louisa County, Virginia. After his family was taken away, Brown mailed himself to friends and freedom in Philadelphia.
- Brown v. Board of Education:
Over Fifty Years Later
In 1952, the Supreme Court heard a number of school segregation cases, including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
- Tired Souls:
King and The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Tired Souls opens in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955 — the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus.
- Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till
In 1955, a 14-year-old black Chicago youth traveled to the Mississippi with country kinfolk and southern cooking on his mind. He walked off the train and into a world he could never understand.
- Life Is So Good
Life Is So Good brings audiences the story of 103-year-old George Dawson, a slave's grandson who learned to read at age 98.
- Blood Done Sign My Name
In Blood Done Sign My Name, Mike Wiley brings to life the recollections of author Tim Tyson surrounding the 1970 murder of Henry “Dickie” Marrow in Oxford, NC.
In 1952, the Supreme Court heard a number of school segregation cases, including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. It ruled unanimously in 1954 that segregation was unconstitutional, overthrowing Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which set the "separate but equal" precedent. This play recounts the effects of the decision on the families who participated in the original court case, the impact of the ruling on school systems at the time and the challenges still being made today.
Production is 50 minutes in length and appropriate for grades 6 and higher, as well as a general audience.
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