A Dramatic Reading of Alabama Story

We are pleased to present a reading of Alabama Story, playwright Kenneth Jones’ six-actor drama about censorship, book banning, and Civil Rights. The play introduces the world to the little-known true story of a librarian named Emily Wheelock Reed, who was persecuted by politicians for protecting a children’s picture book in the Jim Crow South. The Washington Post called it a play “of national relevance.” The controversial and challenged children’s book at the center of Alabama Story is “The Rabbits’ Wedding,” published in 1958, which depicts a black rabbit marrying a white rabbit. Politicians and citizens in Alabama wanted the …