Walk, Don't Ride

Walk, Don't Ride: A Celebration of the Fight for Equality 

An Original Play

by

Peter Manos

PRODUCED BY

BODWIN THEATRE COMPANY

and

THE NOTRE DAME COLLEGE TOLERANCE RESOURCE CENTER

The performances are offered at no charge: 

directed by Peter Manos

 The Performances Are Offered at No Charge

"Walk, Don't Ride! A Celebration of the Fight for Equality" traces significant historical events in the civil rights struggle, including the Montgomery bus boycott, the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and the "freedom riders." With musical performances by the Notre Dame Choir

The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Initiated by the local NAACP, rail worker unions, the Women's Political Council, the Montgomery Improvement Association and others and led by a young Reverend, Martin Luther King, Jr., the boycott drew inspiration from a principled stand by Rosa Parks and others. Initiated in December 1955, the boycott lasted for more than a year, before the bus segregation was ultimately declared unconstitutional.

Nashville Lunch Counter Protests: The Nashville, Tennessee sit-ins in the winter and spring of 1960, were part of efforts to use direct, non-violent action to end racial segregation at lunch counters, retail and other service stores, but the non-violent protesters, numbering several hundreds of individuals, were denied service or arrested by the police.

Freedom Riders: The "Freedom Riders" rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in the early 1960s. Along the route, riders, both white and black, were arrested for trespass, unlawful assembly, various state "Jim Crow" laws and beaten severely.

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Kevin Cronin

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