when I was doing research on the play, what I found was that will be taking place in the rock Arkansas during a time where segregation was a main factor in black peoples lives.  The play is going to be about a girl who will be attending a all white school.  This is unheard of and she is the first one, the first black woman to attend the school. She will be facing a lot of verbal and  physical abuse from white females and males. The story will be picked up by major news outlets and her story will be told.  During this whole thing she still goes to this weights all even if she gets bullied and it's called the N-word every time she goes and at the first day of school there's a riot and her mom barely make it a lot .  The N-word is used a lot in this play  to make sure that the audience understands how degrading and how he makes people feel human, and it gives the white people power over  blacks.