(Nurse) Brenda Pressley’s stage work includes: THE LYONS, DREAMGIRLS (original company), THE AMERICAN PLAY, CATS, THE MOONEY SHAPIRO SONGBOOK, THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER, MOM HOW DID YOU MEET THE BEATLES?, SEVEN GUITARS, FRAN’S BED, GOODWILL, MARVIN’S ROOM, AND THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND-THE SONGS OF KANDER AND EBB and BLUES IN THE NIGHT. Her TV and film work includes: “Cradle Will Rock,” “Twisted,” “Body of Proof,” and “Brewster Place” (with Oprah Winfrey).
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This woman was an inspiration and we are so thankful for her.
“I said, ‘One day, when I get older, I’m going to find a place and honor the Scottsboro Boys and put this book on a table and burn a candle in their memory,’” she told NPR in 2020. ... See MoreSee LessSheila Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys
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She fought for decades to get their names cleared from an egregious injustice in the Jim Crow South, and created a museum in their honor.Like Us