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It is an intense and volatile time... There's so much turbulence. The rights of
African Americans at best, are hesitantly being addressed. It is time for a race of people to collectively take a greater
stand... in the name of justice, freedom, and liberty.
It's a warm summer night in Mississippi, 1963, a lone shot rings out...Medgar Evers lies slain on
his front lawn as his children rush to their living room window to look out in terror.
It is February 21, 1965, while addressing a group of Muslims in New York, Al Hajj Malik (Malcolm
X) is assassinated. His daughters bared witness to the slaughter of their father. While his bloody body lie
on the Auditorium floor, head cradled in his wife's arms, his children are in utter shock.
April 4, 1968...Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stands on the balcony of a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. While
talking with Jesse Jackson he bends over to tie his shoe... a lone bullet penetrates his neck and kills him. The world
is in a state of shock...a peacekeeper, a man of justice, an equal rights forerunner is slain by a violent act of terror.
That decade also saw the lives of two prestigious brothers assassinated, President John F. Kennedy
and his brother, Senator Robert Francis Kennedy.
Woe to the wives and children that suffered so terribly from the loss of these great soldiers in
the fight for civil rights and just causes.
Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin
Luther King, right, listens while Myrlie Evers-Williams,
right, speaks during a memorial service
for Betty Shabazz at Riverside Church in the Harlem section of New York, June 29, 1997. Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, died nearly a month after she was burned in a fire at her home. Thousands attended the service.
| The wife is Malcom X |
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| Betty Shabazz: Her Life With Malcolm & Fight to Preserve His Legacy- Russell John Rickford |
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"The Woman Beside The Man" allows three of America's most fervent survivors
to speak as one. In their own voices, these conscientious women speak strongly against injustice, maltreatment,
and discontentment. They proclaim the triumph and great success of their husbands, and their quests for civil liberties for
all Americans. Even with these bitter losses,
Coretta, Betty and Merylie continued the good fight. This production stirs the audience with moving accounts of
reality. It has mountains and valley's that we must re-visit to once again entreat the progression of marching
onward. A must see for all generations.
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