15 YEARS AGO (1986).
American Theatre, January, 2001
Dreaming Emmett, the first play by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, premieres at Albany, N.Y's Capital Repertory Company. Based on the true story of Emmett Till, a black teenager killed in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, the play inspires Morrison to create her Pulitzer-winning novel ...