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Susan Banyas (from left), Paige Jones, LaVerne Green, and Jennifer Lanier star in The Hillsboro
Story. The Artists Repertory Theatre play depicts Clemons v. Board o f Education o f Hillsboro, Ohio, a
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desegregation decision that was generated a couple years prior in the South.
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Civil Rights Era Comes to Life
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Local play draws from era o f ‘colored’ schools
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Playwright and director Susan Banyas was
in third grade in July 1954 when she saw her
“colored” elementary school go up in flames.
The Hillsboro Story, playing this month at the
Artists Repertory Theatre, downtown, brings
what she saw, and its 50-year aftermath, to the
stage.
The play tells the story of the first test case
for Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 in the
playwright’s hometown of Hillsboro, Ohio,
near the Mason-Dixon Line.
The fire spurred five African-American
mothers to take legal action, and the memory
of that time inspired Banyas to become a
cultural detective by interviewing key figures
to get to the truth of what happened.
Her real stories from 1954-56 bring to life
the not-so-distant history of school desegrega
tion in the early years o f the Civil Rights
Movement.
The Hillsboro Story weaves spoken word,
movement, and jazz by composer David Ornette
Cherry with a trajectory of school and commu
nity outreach.
“This is not just a theater piece but a con
stant dialogue, and engaging and meeting of
minds and personal stories,” said Banyas, who
went to Ohio to talk with lawyers, mothers,
children, teacher and women who were clean
ing the houses of the white residents.
“There was this whole beehive of activity
that happened completely under » the
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white people, these memories are active not
passive - we dignify our lives through our
reclamation of history,” she said.
The Hillsboro Story runs at Artists Reper
tory T h ea tre’s A lder Stage, 1515 S.W.
Morrison St., from Wednesday, Oct. 13 through
Oct. 24; Wednesday through Sunday at 7:30
p.m.; and Sundays at 2p.m. Tickets are $20.
For more information, visit artistsrep.org or
call 503-241-1278.
Play Adapted for
the Classroom
Two high-school teachers at Portland
Public Schools have developed a 5-week
curriculum based on the script o f The
Hillsboro Story, the play about civil rights
and desegregating public schools.
The instruction, targeted for 11th grad
ers, is one of several courses developed
over the past summer and has been added to
a list o f curriculum teachers in Portland can
access. It is not required learning, but it is
one o f several choices for teachers to choose
from and to adapt to their needs.
For more information, visit pps.k 12.or.us/
news/4367.