KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE
New role-play at International Slavery Museum
A powerful new performance telling the story of inspirational civil rights campaigner Diane Nash is premiering at the International Slavery Museum on Monday 5 May 2008. Keep your eyes on the prize looks at her struggle to achieve civil rights in America using nonviolent tactics and describes her moving experience of sit-ins and the freedom rides that challenged the racial segregation of buses in the southern states. Public performances will begin at 2pm and 3pm.
New role-play at International Slavery Museum
A powerful new performance telling the story of inspirational civil rights campaigner Diane Nash is premiering at the International Slavery Museum on Monday 5 May 2008. Keep your eyes on the prize looks at her struggle to achieve civil rights in America using nonviolent tactics and describes her moving experience of sit-ins and the freedom rides that challenged the racial segregation of buses in the southern states. Public performances will begin at 2pm and 3pm.
You are invited to send a reporter and photographer to the International Slavery Museum on Thursday 1 May, 2008 at 1000 hours. Actress Vikky Evans-Hubbard will be in costume and available for interview.
Diane Nash encountered racial prejudice whilst attending Fisk University in America in 1959. She made a stand against this discrimination and eventually became the unofficial leader of the Nashville sit-ins. She also helped to organise the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was an inspirational member of the civil rights movement.
