Opal Lee, the grandmother of Juneteenth, brings a play about the woman considered the mother of voter registration to Fort Worth.
She's bringing to town a stage play about Fannie Lou Hamer, the woman considered the mother of voter registration. Hamer was a trailblazing civil rights activist and relentless champion of voting rights in the early '60s."She lived in Mississippi. She chose to go and vote, and they wouldn't let her. They beat her unmercifully because she was trying to vote," Lee said."And I think people need to know this.
"Juneteenth is what my grandmother is most known for. She's known as the grandmother of Juneteenth. And the freedom as an American to vote, that is what we're hoping people are excited about, is that when the enslaved were free, and it took a long time even after freedom to get to the right to vote. And that's what Fannie Lou Hamer's story is really about.
Sims says Lee recently saw an excerpt of the award-winning production of The Fannie Lou Hamer Story and was determined to bring it to Fort Worth before Election Day, November 5th."I just didn't even give it a thought. I just told her to come to Fort Worth and bring this to us. And now, the kinds of things we've had to do to get her here! Well, come Sunday, I think it's going to work," Lee said.
The one-woman The Fannie Lou Hamer Story plays on Sunday, Nov. 3 at 3 p.m. at the I.M. Terrell Performing Arts Complex at 1411 I M Terrell Circle South in Fort Worth.
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