By Kenneth Jones
Mississippi Premiere
Directed by Louie Gallo
In 1959 in Montgomery, a children’s book about a black rabbit marrying a white rabbit stirs the passions of a segregationist Alabama senator and a no-nonsense librarian, along with two childhood friends – an African-American man and a woman of white privilege – reunited in adulthood. Inspired by true events, this tale of the Deep South during the flowering of the civil rights movement brims with humor, heartbreak, and hope.