IF YOU GOWhat: “The Battle Ain’t Over.”When: 6:30 p.m. today, 6 p.m. Sunday.Where: Chauncey Goode Auditorium, Tennessee Temple University, 1815 Union Ave.Admission: Free.Phone: 838-5663 or 313-7343.
Without its main building block, said the local authors of a new play on the struggle for voting rights in the civil-rights era, what was accomplished may never have occurred.
“The Battle Ain’t Over,” a two-act play based on events that occurred in the 1960s, will be staged today and Sunday at Chauncey Goode Auditorium on the campus of Tennessee Temple University.
Faith is at the heart of the play, said co-writer and director Brandalyn Shropshire, “because that was one of the cornerstones of the civil-rights movement. There was no way we could [write it] without incorporating faith.”
Sponsored by the Hamilton County Voter Empowerment Team and the Mount Canaan Baptist Church Performing Arts Ministry, the production focuses on how the civil-rights movement affected three family units in a small town in Georgia in the early 1960s.