Love Songs from the Liberation Wars
"This is the voice of the people whose names have been forgotten in history, and we have an obligation to those people to bring those voices forward. [...] This isn’t just a show. This is a life’s work - and its purpose is not just to entertain, it’s to educate and uplift. If they can take that on Broadway, we’ll go to Broadway."
Elise Bryant
Director, Love Songs From the Liberation Wars
Love Songs from the Liberation Wars is an original work composed by Washington D.C.-area singer/songwriter Steve Jones and directed by labor activist and cultural worker Elise Bryant. Drawing on Robert Korstad’s prize-winning book, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South, it tells the moving story of this early victory against workplace injustice and Jim Crow segregation, led primarily by African American men and women, in one of the largest factories in the 1940s South—the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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