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Notes
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Whereas current vernacular favors identification of groups by culture or nationality
of origin, our designations of racial groups reflect usage during the time of the Civil
Rights Movement.
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NAACP stands for “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.”
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“Jim Crow” is a term for the system of segregation laws.
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We struggled with how best to represent and balance race, gender, and culture in the three
sections of the chorus. In our absorption with showing varying responses to enslavement,
for example, we omitted another representation that would have been appropriate for the
Chorus Past, that of a White slave trader. But in other cases we were able to incorporate a
more complete picture. For example, our characterization of SallyJo as “ambivalent” enabled
allusion to a role that many White women played in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Some
were genuine sympathizers, and others just wanted their housemaids to continue working,
but for whatever reasons many surreptitiously offered car rides to pedestrian boycotters. Sal-
lyJo waffles but ultimately changes her attitude during the presentation, joining the ranks of
the pro-boycotters. Similarly, our characterization of Jonah as “systemized” enables a more
fluid treatment of his personage: at the critical moment just before Rosa Parks is arrested,
he flees the bus (as people sometimes did under such circumstances).
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We have numbered the folds for purposes of designation, but as the text explains, the
folds are not necessarily sequential.
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