Most Blessed Sacrament Church
Emerging Adults
Hello Emerging Adults of Most Blessed Sacrament Church,
This Saturday, February 24th at 7:00pm at the Henry County Performing Arts Center, the stage play "The Ladies Car: The Story of Ida B. Wells" will be taking place. Most Blessed Sacraments' very own, Kim Fletcher, is producing this stage play and has invited the entire Emerging Adult community to experience this event. Therefore, I am asking all Emerging Adults to contact me if you are interested in going, and the church will be providing free tickets for those individuals. You can contact me by sending me a message to the email address below simply stating that you would like to attend.
For more information, please visit this link...
“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze!”
-St. Catherine of Sienna
Best Regards,
Lyndon Batiste
Emerging Adults Ministry Leader
Most Blessed Sacrament Church
For more information, email Lyndon Batiste @ lbatiste@mbschurch.com
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The Ladies Car Stage Play
https://www.freshtix.com/events/the-ladies-car-stage-play
The Ladies Car depicts the journey Ida B. Wells (NAACP co-founder), a resilient young school teacher fighting a lone battle for equality in the segregated south, once she is thrown off a Memphis train by the white mob. Ida uses her wits and tenacity to pursue justice and vengeance against the railroad giant all while struggling to please her family and friends, explore love and her life’s purpose.
The Ladies Car, written by Tiana L. Ferrell (descendant of Ida B. Wells), highlights Ida B. Wells’ victory with the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad Company. In 1883, Ida purchased a first-class ticket and boarded a Memphis train headed to Woodstock, Tennessee. When requested by a train conductor to move from the first-class ladies car to the Colored car, which was also a smoking car, Ida refused and was forcibly removed from the train. As a result, she hired an attorney and filed suit in 1884 against the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad Company. Ida’s attorney won the case in circuit court arguing the company didn’t offer “separate but equal” accommodations for Blacks and Whites. Ida was awarded $500 in damages. This case took place before the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision that established the “separate but equal” policy and legalized racial segregation, making Ida a pioneer in the fight of desegregation.