Mike Wiley Productions presents Changing Same
A gripping theatrical retelling traces Private Booker T. Spicely’s 1944 killing under Jim Crow, the bus driver’s acquittal, and witnesses who expose the violence and injustice facing Black servicemen.
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A searing historical drama recounts the 1944 killing of Black soldier Pvt. Booker T. Spicely after a Jim Crow bus-seat dispute, tracing the aftermath and moral reckoning. Performed at the YMI Cultural Center in downtown Asheville.
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A searing historical drama recounts the 1944 killing of Black soldier Pvt. Booker T. Spicely after a Jim Crow bus-seat dispute, tracing the aftermath and moral reckoning. Performed at the YMI Cultural Center in downtown Asheville.
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