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Theatre Review: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Theatre Review: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

In the late 1960’s in America, most states still enforced laws that made it illegal for a black person to drink from the same water fountain as a white person. Not all Americans embraced this way of thinking, however. Men like Matt Drayton (played by David Lundgren), publisher of a San Francisco newspaper, made a point to show biracial couples on the front page of his newspaper. Despite his progressive views on integration in America, Matt struggles when his white daughter comes home from her internship with quite a surprise: a black fiancé.

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ReviewsRenae AdelsbergerJackson TN, Tennessee, Kevin Adelsberger, Renae Adelsberger, theatre, Jackson Theatre Guild, The Ned, play, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, David Lundgren, racism, integration, Megan Christoferson, Ontoni Reedy, Lanny Poteet, Sally Dickerson, comedy, Ned R. McWherter West Tennessee Cultural Arts Center
Pioneers in Reconciliation
Pioneers in Reconciliation

The year was 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Jackson City Hall had separate drinking fountains for "colored" people and "white" people, and Union University and Lane College were still neighbors downtown.It was a crisp fall night in the middle of basketball season. Camille Long was one of only four African-Americans in the bleachers of the Union University gym, including the fellow Lane College student she'd dragged with her.

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StoriesEmily LittletonJackson TN, Tennessee, Emily Littleton, Black History Month, black, African American, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., Union University, Lane College, basketball, Lonnie Searcy, Camille Searcy, sports, athletics, education, racism, segregation, Billy Henry, integration, University of Memphis, Memphis TN, Union Sports Hall of Fame, Jackson-Madison County Sports Hall of Fame, Women's History Month, woman of color
Transcending Today
Transcending Today

I still remember my last day of high school. I remember leaving the parking lot and listening to the Dave Matthews song “Number 41,” and I still remember the lyrics that were blaring from the speakers of my Nissan Maxima. “I will go in this way, and I’ll find my own way out. . . .” They seemed poignant at the time, though I’m not sure in what way exactly. As a matter of fact, I’m not really sure that I even liked Dave Matthews. I think I wanted to like Dave Matthews because all my friends liked Dave Matthews.

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