Pearl Cleage wrote “Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard” about the first Black mayor of Atlanta after working as his press secretary decades ago.
“I didn’t really have an interest in trying to make him a character,” Cleage says, “because he already was a great, big, larger-than-life character.”
Cleage arrived in Atlanta in the summer of 1969 after studying playwrighting at Howard University and, upon seeing Jackson speak out against police brutality on television, was immediately struck by his astute stances and charisma. When Jackson, then the vice mayor, ran for the top office in 1973, Cleage volunteered to write speeches for his campaign. After his historic victory, he brought the 26-year-old Cleage to City Hall as his press secretary.
When Ford’s Theatre contacted Cleage last year about its Legacy Commissions initiative — a newly established incubator for stories involving social justice, racial history, underrepresented characters and lesser-known historical figures — Cleage floated the idea of commemorating Jackson 20 years after.
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