To Honor; To Action!
One-Woman Play Includes Voter Registration
In 1962, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) volunteers came to town and held a voter registration meeting. When the members asked for volunteers to go to the courthouse to register to vote, Fannie Lou Hamer was the first to raise her hand. When Hamer and others went to the courthouse, they were jailed and beaten by the police. Hamer’s courageous act got her thrown off the plantation where she was a sharecropper. She also began to receive constant death threats and assassination attempts. Still, Hamer would not be discouraged; she became a SNCC Field Secretary and traveled around the country speaking and registering people to vote.
Actress, Singer, Writer, Activist Entertainer Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye (which means-Beautiful-heart-that sings) brings Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer to brilliant life in her award-winning one-woman show, The Fannie Lou Hamer Story-“ I’m Sick and Tired of being Sick and Tired.” Written and performed by Aimbaye, under the new direction of Byron C. Saunders, and presented by Healing Through the Sound of Music.
Aimbaye created the play after watching a television interview with Hamer, the Mother of Voter Registration for Black Americans.
The Fannie Lou Hamer Story chronicles the life of Fannie Lou Hamer in poetic styled story telling. The play starts with her return from the grave, because, so many unarmed Black young men and women have been killed by police. They ask her to come back. So, she unexpectedly shows up at a rally… This play is a history lesson that will not only make you cry, laugh, sing, clap and shout to the nostalgic songs from the 60’s but register to vote immediately after the performance! The NAACP or the League of Women Voters will be onsite to register unregistered audience members to vote.
The show is being presented at Prince George’s Community College – The Center for Performing Arts in Largo for one night only - January 25 at 3:00pm.
This event is a part of Aimbaye’s 2020 National Tour Commemorating Women of Civil Rights and Social Justice.
Tickets can be purchased at www.pgcc.edu/arts / For information, call 301-546-7422.
For more information, visit, www.thefannielouhamerstory.com
