Fall 1966
Producer/Director/Drama Teacher – I “did” the plays
Courter Tech
Courter Tech was not a neighborhood school. It drew students from all over the city. We had a large number of black students who wanted to participate in the drama club, but it was hard finding plays where you could use a mixed race cast.
Our Town has a huge cast and there were a lot of scenes where we could use the black actors. We did this play in the middle of the civil rights movement.
There was a black student who was especially good and needed to have at least a supporting role, so I cast him as Frank Gibbs, the husband in one of the family units with a white wife.
The students and the administration were accepting of my decision. It was a daring thing to do at the time.