​We Were There! A Celebration of Women’s History month, featuring Bev Grant.
“WE WERE THERE!” is a multi-media women’s labor history project featuring voices, songs and projected images depicting our sisters’ struggles from abolitionist Sojourner Truth, fighting for women’s rights to Dolores Huerta fighting on behalf of the farmworkers of today.​
Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 3 pm
AFL-CIO President’s Room
815 16th St, NW
Washington, DC 20006​
Cast:
Sojourner Truth: Jackie Jeter
Charlotte Forten: Maya Goines
Luisa Capetillo: Yolanda Medina
Mother Jones: Patti Devlin
Emma Taneyuka: Esther Lopez
Pauline Newman: Cathy Feingold
Rose Schneiderman: Lorie Anspach
Lucy Parsons: Tanya Hutchins
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Rhonda Rogers
Jayaben Desai: Sujatha Blackstone
Olga Madar: Robin Mack
Rebecca Lolosoli: Tsika Pasipanodya
Berta Caceres: Yolanda Medina
Ai Jen Poo: Alvina Yeh
Dolores Huerta: Esther Lopez
Music: Bev Grant