Composer Jasmine Arielle Barnes (left) and librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton have written a new opera, “She Who Dared,” about the unrecognized women of the Civil Rights era.

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But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...

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2. Rosa Parks. Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a national icon in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.

Ella Baker. Septima Poinsette Clark. Fannie Lou Hamer. They and others risked their lives and worked tirelessly, demanding a social revolution - but history often has overlooked them. They were ...

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The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in Chicago.

"I grew up in the wake of the civil rights movement where we celebrated all the heroes in the progress and the gains, and knowing that there's still so much work that needs to be done in this country.

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