Performance Tours


Freedom Fellows get the opportunity to share their knowledge of the freedom struggle in Mississippi through the Sunflower Freedom Troupe. The troupe performs exclusive plays written by Freedom Project students and staff. The troupe takes two performance tours each year, one in the spring and one in the summer. We have performed four original plays:

  • "A Boy Named Bobo," about the killing of Emmett Till
  • "Something's Gotta Change," about the sit-in movement in Mississippi
  • "Five Feet Four Inches Forward," about the life of Fannie Lou Hamer
  • "Thirty Years From Now," about school integration in the late 1960s

These tours challenge our students to perform at a high level -- there are no excuses when you are on stage!

 
The Sunflower Freedom Troupe has performed for audiences ranging from Houston to Orlando to Washington D.C. to New York City.