American actor and author Gregory Alan Williams discusses directing his play adaptation of Evelyn Fairbanks’ The Days of Rondo book. The play is being staged at Great American History Theatre in St. Paul.
The Days of Rondo is an account of events in the life of a Black family from the South struggling for survival and meaning in a northern city. Fairbanks lived along Rondo Avenue, the heart of St. Paul's largest Black community from the 1930s through the 1950s.