"And we ain't got those roses to smell like they got over at the white school neither. Just a bunch of dirt and a one-room school house with one itty toilet next to the closet with the kids' lunches." Mrs. Sarah Bulah -- Scene 9
Now Let Me Fly was commissioned through a cooperative effort of the Brown Foundation and Washburn University.
"Sitting in the darkened ECC auditorium, Denise Jefferson listened and resolved to fly high herself. 'Seeing it on stage made it real for me and probably made me more determined to finish my education,' the 40-year-old Aurora woman said." Tara Malone The Daily Herald (suburban Chicago newspaper)
Tara Malone
The Daily Herald
(suburban Chicago newspaper)