Opening Night – March 4th Meet our friends from the NAACP Salt Lake Branch before the show and learn more about this vital organization during a short presentation following the performance. About the NAACP Salt Lake Branch The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Salt Lake Branch was formed in 1919 to combat discrimination
by Ellen Fagg Weist | The Salt Lake Tribune On Route 80 between Selma and Montgomery, Ala., a white activist and her passenger, a 19-year-old black man, were driving civil-rights marchers to safety. That was the plan, anyway, on the evening of March 25, 1965. Instead, the Oldsmobile driven by Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old mother
Selma ’65 commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Selma Voting March. Based on true events, this solo piece explores the stories of white civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo and FBI informant Tommy Rowe. Rowe was among the Ku Klux Klan members who overtook and gunned down Liuzzo’s Oldsmobile in March 1965. Liuzzo, who witnessed racial hatred firsthand
