PLAY IDEAS:
-John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry and his trial
-Sojourner Truth Speaks out
-Harriet Tubman leads slaves out of bondage
-Denmark Vesey plots a slave insurrection, and/or his trial when it was foiled
-The great Nat Turner rebellion
-Frederick Douglass fights slavery and racism
-Congress debates the 3/5 Compromise
-Averting Civil War with the Missouri Compromise
-William Lloyd Garrison’s fight for racial and gender equality
-Harriet Beecher Stowe comes to write UNCLE TOM’S CABIN based upon her experiences in Southern Ohio
-Abe Lincoln meets with black leaders about a return to Africa
-Aboard a slave ship
-The defense of the slaves who took over the slave ship Amistad by John Quincy Adams
-Black cowboys and pioneers
-Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre
-Blacks in the American Revolution
-Phillis Wheatley, American Poet
- William Still and the Underground Railroad
-Dred Scott pleads for his freedom before the Supreme Court
-Plessy vs. Ferguson and the rise of Jim Crow in America
-The beating and lynching of Emmett Till
--Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas and school desegregation
--Rosa Parks, Jo Ann Robinson and the Montgomery Bus boycott
-the Brownsville Affair and the unfair discharge of Black soldiers
-champion boxer Jack Johnson and a hostile world
- OF Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major League Baseball
-- the unfair prosecution of the Scottsboro boys
--Jesse Owens and his triumph in the “Nazi” Olympics
-Joe Louis and his bout with “Nazi” boxing champ Max Schmelling
-the Black Panthers and black power
-OF the short, powerful life of Tupac Shakur
-The controversy of Bill Cosby
-Marcus Garvey and UNIA fighting for African solidarity
-An argument between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
-Malcolm X confronts Elijah Muhammad (or argues with Martin Luther King)
-Mary McLeod Bethune meets Eleanor Roosevelt and becomes a force for equality
-The Shirley Chisholm story
-Oprah Winfrey creates a media empire
-N.W.A. fights mainstream music to bring legitimacy to “Gangsa Rap”
-The story of Ella Baker
-The Story of the Trailways/Greyhound Freedom Rides
-The Story of the lunch counter sit-ins
-The Port Chicago disaster
-The story of the Tuskegee Airmen
-The story of the Buffalo Soldiers
-The Story of the case of Loving vs Virginia and an end to the banning of inter-racial marriages
-Muhammad Ali against the world
-The fight of Fannie Lou Hamer in the Jim Crow south
-A. Philip Randolph and the Pullman Strike
-Paul Robeson fights the House on Un American Activities
-The Michael Jackson story
-Trayvon Martin and racial profiling in Florida
-The Watts Riots in Los Angeles
-The Hough Riots in Cleveland
-The troubles in Ferguson, MO.
-The shooting of Tamir Rice in Cleveland
-The story of Barak Obama
-The story of Martin Luther King
-George Washington Carver, the genius of Tuskegee
-Garrett Morgan, inventor and activist
-The murder of Civil Rights worker Medgar Evers
-The Selma church bombing
-Billie Holiday- Lady Day sings “strange fruit”
-The powerful life of Louis Armstrong
-America’s first black comedy star: Bert Williams
-Reginald Lewis and how to make a billion
-The rise of Ben Carson
-The Story of the Nation of Islam from Farad to Farrakhan
-Black athletes/black power at the Olympics in Mexico City
-Madam C.J. Walker self-made millionaire
-Gordon Parks, pioneer of black photography and film
-Morgan Freeman and the end of “black” history
-Lebron James from poverty to superstardom
-Hattie McDaniel makes acting Mammy into an art form
-Sidney Poitier breaks through the color barrier to stardom
-Nina Simone and a voice of equality
-Beyonce and Kanye West go at it