SCLC #505 — 1995 Be Boyd Rosa Parks one-woman play proposal

Finding #505: A 1995 fortieth-anniversary prospectus describes two distinct proposed one-woman-play tours. One was Leslie McCurdy’s Harriet Tubman Returns. The other was a Rosa Parks play attributed to Be Boyd. The prospectus lists possible Parks performers including Halle Berry and Cicely Tyson and says individual schedules were being finalized for 40 major national markets.

This is a promotional and theatrical development plan, not evidence that any performer was cast, that Boyd’s script survives, that the Parks play was staged, that a 40-city tour happened, or that Parks authorized it. Named actors are expressly candidates, not an announced cast. “Scheduled to tour” sits beside “schedules still being finalized.”

Craft locks: proposal ≠ cast/performed; candidates ≠ cast; Tubman show ≠ Parks portrayal; distinct from 1996 Von H. Washington musical and 1975 Selma musical. LOC mss859430253 leaves 0018/0021/0024.

Source: repo. Standing three hundred forty-three held.