Historic Atlanta

Today thru Sunday you can catch one of the final five THE WASH shows at , with projection design from our very own board member of !

Tickets link in our profile / Linktree.

"Discover the captivating, untold story of Atlanta's courageous black laundresses who defied oppression and ignited a movement. Just weeks before the International Cotton Exposition swept into the city, these bold women took a stand, demanding the right to set their own wages. The Atlanta Washerwomen's Strike of 1881 marked a pivotal moment in history, showcasing one of the largest in*******al labor strikes post-Civil War. 'The Wash' invites you to delve into the intimate and often humorous journey of these ordinary women turned extraordinary fighters who fought the system and won.

"The performance is 2 hours and 20 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission.

"ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIP

"Impact Theatre Atlanta and Synchronicity Theatre will co-produce the world premiere of Kelundra Smith’s The Wash. In Spring of 2023, we held a workshop to explore design elements and next steps for the script with the playwright. The full production will run in the summer of 2024, for four weeks in Synchronicity’s midtown location, and then a 3-week run in Hapeville, where Impact Theatre is in residence at The Academy."

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🤓 NERD ALERT! 🤓 Come out THIS SATURDAY for the final (5 of 5) CBC lecture, featuring ! Thank you to for organizing this series. 🙌

Details from the City:

"The Chattahoochee Brick Company Education series will continue on June 15 at 1 pm at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum when Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar of the University of Connecticut speaks on the Chattahoochee Brick Co. as it relates to race, social politics and crime reform in 'The Gate City.' For more information visit: atlcitydesign.com/chattahoochee-brick"

Come out to Northwest Library at Scotts Crossing TODAY @ 2:00 to support our fight to find the bodies of forced laborers likely buried on the Chattahoochee Brick Company site.

This meeting (open to all) of the City of Atlanta's official CBC Advisory Board marks the public launch of our campaign for INVESTIGATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY to find the remains, if any, of forced laborers who may have been secretly buried on site.

The Chattahoochee Brick Company started on Atlanta's industrial West Side in 1878, relying on a corrupt "convict lease" system that notoriously imprisoned many innocent Black men (bogus "vagrancy" and "loitering" charges were commonplace) so as to force them to make bricks for free --- a new form of slavery.

"This is not just a factory where people were treated badly. It’s a place where people were worked to death and buried in unmarked graves." - Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Slavery by Another Name" about the convict lease system.

We can't find the remains of these men and tell their stories if we don't look! And that is all we are asking from the City --- let us fund a team of archaeologists to look for their bodies.

We're grateful for the support of our partners in this cause.

DM us for more info and to find out how you can get involved!

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