Theatre Student Makes the National Stage

Last Friday, NBC Nightly News aired an inspirational story profiling Spirit Trickey which also featured UALR Theatre student, Crystal Mercer. Crystal plays the role of Spirit's mother, Minnijean Brown, one of the Little Rock Nine, in a one woman show Spirit wrote called One Ninth.



Both Crystal and Spirit are park rangers at the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site. Such talent is exhibited by these amazing women as "keepers of the story," a phrase Minnijean is fond of saying about their commitment to the Little Rock Nine legacy. Read more about One Ninth here.

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