The new play, The Great Society, features the women who were key to the Johnson presidency.
takes place after Lyndon B. Johnson has won a landslide presidential election. His administration was at the epicenter of a monumental era that would transform history. The Civil Rights Movement was generating serious heat. There were the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. The war in Vietnam was spiraling out of control.At a time when women were expected to remain silent in the background, some strong women helped shape the Johnson administration.
Barbara Garrick, Nikkole Salter and Angela Pierce who respectively play Lady Bird Johnson, Coretta Scott King/Sally Childress and Pat Nixon offered their insight to these great women and what it is like to portray them. For all the actresses, it was an opportunity of a lifetime that continues to inspire them and they hope to impart that sense of possibility. “Coretta Scott King says ‘Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in very generation,’” observes Salter.
Coretta was valedictorian of her graduating high school class. That’s right. Despite violent racist acts like having their home burnt to the ground by jealous arsonists, Coretta’s parents were able to provide both their daughters with an education that led them to receive scholarships to college in Ohio. In Ohio Coretta first joined the freedom fight, launching a campaign for fairness in her music education program that relegated her internship to a segregated school.
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