Written and directed by Art Feinglass. Based on the playwright’s personal experience.
Sponsored by Congregation Beth Shalom & Temple Beth Am

“Mississippi Summer,” a new play written and directed by local playwright Art Feinglass, looks at the role of Jews in the civil rights movement in the 1960’s South. Based on actual people and events, the play focuses on two idealistic Jewish volunteers who traveled to Mississippi in 1965 to fight for civil rights, the Jewish lawyer from Tacoma who defended them and the heroic local rabbi who played a key role in the struggle.

In the summer of 1965 Feinglass was a young civil rights worker in Jackson, Mississippi, where he and his fellow SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) workers Stokely Carmichael, James Foreman and John Lewis were beaten and jailed by police for their part in the bloody battle to end segregation. The play is based on his personal experiences and on the journal he kept at the time.

Get tickets via the Beth Am website: https://templebethamseattle.shulcloud.com/form/mississippisummersjt
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Performance will be followed by a conversation with the audience.

More information at SeattleJewishTheater.com