In a change from its normal Freedom Fund Dinner, this year the Leavenworth NAACP treated the community to a play “Divine Resistance: Covenant of Faith” featuring adult and youth members of the branch plus a supporting crew of community members.
The play tells the story of the little-known Oblate Sisters, an order of Black nuns who came to Leavenworth in the late 1800s to operate a boys and a girls orphanage. They also started a school for Black children and helped thousands before finally closing and leaving the area in 1959.
The play written, directed and produced by Leavenworth resident Lolita Law, was staged in University of Saint Mary’s Xavier Hall and included a pre-event reception, with food and drinks.
Lolita Law (center in black) gathers with some of the cast for photos after the production. Law did a great job wearing three hats as the writer, director and producer of the play. 
The diverse cast included a number of people from the community. These characters played the role of townspeople protesting because they didn’t want the sisters or their orphanages and schools in Leavenworth. 
Rev. Joesph Clark, the new NAACP Branch president, welcomes the audience to the play.