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The Seat of Justice

The Seat of Justice

By Julian Wiles.

Product Code: S2R000

  • Full-length Play
  • Drama
  • Cast size: 12m., 7w., 4 boys, 3 girls.

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Synopsis

In the era when segregation and “separate but equal” were the law of the land, Levi Pearson, a black farmer in rural Clarendon County, South Carolina, bravely took a stand for justice. His children walk nine miles to school each day while white children ride new school buses. Pearson files suit in federal court asking for equal educational opportunities for his children. Though his initial case is thrown out of court on a technicality, Levi rallies their neighbors to launch a new lawsuit demanding equal educational facilities for their children. Local attorney Harold Boulware and Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund agree to represent them but only if they can secure not one but 20 plaintiffs for the case. Despite the threat of reprisals, more than 150 parents step forward and agree to sign the petition that launches Briggs v. Elliott, the first desegregation lawsuit in U.S. history. The plaintiffs lose their case in federal court in Charleston in a two to one ruling, but the Briggs case is not finished. Briggs v. Elliott is appealed to the United States Supreme Court where it joins five other desegregation cases from Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia and Kansas—all now consolidated into one case and now known as Brown v. Board of Education. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled on this landmark case, Chief Justice Earl Warren declaring from the bench that “the doctrine of separate but equal has no place” and that desegregation should take place with “all deliberate speed.”

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Details

  • Status

    In stock

  • Type of Show Full-length Play
  • Product Code S2R000
  • Cast Size 26
  • Min. Royalty Rate $90/perf
  • Cost $10.95
  • Approx. Run Time 120 min

Categories

  • Target Audience Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
  • Performing Group High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre
  • Genre Drama
  • ISBN(13) 9781619591547
* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.

Media Reviews

“It brings to life the fight for civil rights in a way that no textbook can achieve." ——The Telegraph (Macon, Ga.)

“Heartrending and soul searching.” —The Telegraph (Macon, Ga.)

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