Anne and Emmett
[Janet] Langhart Cohen, a former television talk show host and newspaper columnist, has written a provocative one-act play in which two martyred teenagers, Anne Frank and Emmett Till, meet after death in a place called Memory.
Anne, a Jew, died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. She was 15. Till, who was black, was lynched by white racists during the Jim Crow era. He was 14. […]
In the complex history of black and Jewish relations — long characterized by a mix of empathy and mutual respect, hostility and suspicion, and, of late, wearied indifference — the play seeks to rekindle a memory of a common struggle for freedom and justice.
