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Growing Up White on Wilson

  • ROOTS-101 African American Museum 124 North 1st Street Louisville, KY, 40202 United States (map)

Don Ray Smith flips the script with the true story about his boyhood in the highly-segregated West End of Louisville, Kentucky in the 1950s. Smith becomes over a dozen characters in this one-man, two-act play. His view takes in everything from white 'Projects’ to Black girls, street punks to teachers, brass knuckles to Cassius Clay, boxcar-jumping to an alcoholic father, and Integration to White Flight. Smith’s positive messages are non-confrontational but still unvarnished. And still very real in today’s times.

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