Young Performs One-Woman Show at Judson

Young Performs One-Woman Show at Judson

Billie Jean Young, artist-in-residence and associate professor of fine and performing arts at Judson College in Marion performed her one-woman show, Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light. The performance was Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. in the Alumnae Auditorium.

Young has delighted audiences with her hour-long Civil Rights era play depicting the life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Hamer was a sharecropper in Mississippi who was drawn into the Civil Rights movement by her desire to secure equality and voting rights for all of America’s people.

“I wrote the play … to give voice to a then unsung heroine and because the Civil Rights movement was an important part of my own life,” Young said.

Young was a student at Judson who graduated with distinction in 1974 and went on to earn a law degree from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham. She returned to her alma mater in 2006 to teach.