Annette Hubbell wrote a one-woman show. In it, she portrays historical figures – white, like herself, and Black.
“It never occurred to me that that might even be an issue,” she said. “I was telling their stories, bringing them alive.”
Rancho Santa Fe Library asked her to perform her show for Women’s History Month in 2024, she said. She gave them a list of characters to pick from. They chose Harriet Beecher Stowe, a white abolitionist, Mary McLeod Bethune, a Black educator and civil rights leader, and Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and led others to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
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