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Stage Rights playwright Mary Queen Donnelly, writes about her contemporary, civil rights pioneer Sister Thea Bowman, and the impetus behind "Thea's Turn."
Posted 2.21.2018
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Stage Rights playwright Mary Queen Donnelly, writes about her contemporary, civil rights pioneer Sister Thea Bowman, and the impetus behind "Thea's Turn."
Posted 2.21.2018
From the Desk Of,
#MaryQueenDonnelly,
#StageRightsLA,
#Catholic,
#BlackHistoryMonth,
#TheaBowman
Born at the same time in the same small southern town during the same Jim Crow era, the lives of Sister Thea Bowman and I ran as parallel as the Illinois Central railroad tracks that separated the town.