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New Play Explores Events Around 1919 Tragedy, Violence
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A new play explores the events around a 1919 killing that led to tragedy and violence.
More than a century after the killing of 17-year-old Eugene Williams at a segregated Lake Michigan beach in the summer of 1919, the tragedy and violence that followed still echo in Chicago. In a new production adapted from Eve Ewing’s collection of poetry about those terrible days, the Steppenwolf for Young Adults explores 1919’s legacy.
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Chicago Tonight: Black Voices is a local public television program presented by WTTW
Chicago Tonight: Black Voices
New Play Explores Events Around 1919 Tragedy, Violence
Clip: 10/8/2022 | 7m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
More than a century after the killing of 17-year-old Eugene Williams at a segregated Lake Michigan beach in the summer of 1919, the tragedy and violence that followed still echo in Chicago. In a new production adapted from Eve Ewing’s collection of poetry about those terrible days, the Steppenwolf for Young Adults explores 1919’s legacy.
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