"Lola's Letter" Stage Play Needs Actors

Ida B. Wells Partner and editior of the Free Speech, A black newspaper in Memphis,TN. Ida B. Wells is a woman ahead of her time. She is strong-willed, independent,fearless, and uncompromising in her fight for the equality for black people. (age: 29)

Founder and Former partner of the black newspaper the Free Speech. He is the minster of the largest BLack congregation in Memphis, Beale Street Baptist Church, and an inflential figure in the black community.

Ida's best friend and owner of the People's Grocery, which he financed from his letter carrier job. Tommie is a good-natured, industrious, and an upstanding member of the community.

A white southerner who owns the ladies dress shop that Ida B. Wells patronizes. He belives in the adage of "fair play" and advertises in the newspaper the Free Speech. (mid 40's)

Pseudonym for a nameless criminal who stalks the Negro section of the Memphis commiting petty Larceny. Black Judas us angry young man who feels abandoned and blames middle class blacks for his hardship.

Mrs. Johnson, Sam Johnsons's wife, is the salt of the earth. She is a kind and generous woman who quietly stands by her husband. She works as domestic and is an active member of Beale Street Baptist Chruch.

Partner and business manager of the of the black newspaper the Free Speech. He is a realist and takes a sensible and practical approach to problems.

Tommie Moss's loving and supportive wife and Ida B. Wells' best friend. Betty admires Ida but. unlike Ida, she is warm, amiable, and content to be a homemaker. She is expecting their second child. (age: mid-20s)

An ambitious, aggressivce, ande unscrupulous newspaper reporter for the Memphis Commercial a major city newpaper. (mid 30's)

An older, working class black man who earns a decent living as a laborer. Sam and his wife are steadfast, upstanding members of the community.

Editor of the "New York Age" A star of the free Black Press.