Appomattox / Christopher Hampton.
| Author/creator | Hampton, Christopher, 1946- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | London : Bloomsbury, [2017] |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Drama online |
| Summary | 4th March, 1865: On the night of his second inauguration, a few weeks before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln meets the veteran black abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the White House to discuss the prospect of extending the vote to black men who have served in the soon to be victorious Union armies. 4th March, 1965: In the White House, Lyndon Johnson, anxious to introduce a new Voting Rights Act, is briefed by his sinister and 'unfirable' FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, on the imminent Selma to Montgomery march, led by Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a demonstration prompted by a state trooper's murder of the young activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, in Marion, Alabama, following a rally in support of voter registration in Perry County. In this play, Christopher Hampton traces a line which runs from the last days of a brutal Civil War all the way to the present day. |
| General note | Previously issued in print: London: Faber and Faberm 2012. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 21, 2017). |
| Issued in other form | Print version : 9780571309115 |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Standard identifier# | 10.5040/9780571338436.00000003 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |