Everything you need to understand or teach Flyin' West by Pearl Cleage.
Pearl Cleage's Flyin' West is the story of a small group of African-American women whose lives changed when the West was opened up for people willing to settle in a harsh and untested region. The backgrounds, actions, and feelings of the play's four women and two men reflect themes of determination, racism, miscegenation (intermarriage between races), feminism, pride, and freedom. These themes are evident in much of Cleage's work, which includes plays, novels...
Flyin' West Lesson Plans contain 146 pages of teaching material, including: