Nov. 11, 1991 Credit: Wikipedia Endesha Ida Mae Holland debuted her play, “From the Mississippi Delta,” at the Circle in the Square Downtown in Chicago. The play, partly financed by Oprah Winfrey, detailed her journey from poverty and prostitution in the Jim Crow South to a life of activism in the civil rights movement. Born in 1944, she grew up in a shack in Greenwood that was overrun with roaches. When she was 11, a white man, who had hired her as a babysitter, raped her and afterward handed her a $5 bill. “I decided then and there not to tell mama what had happened,” she wrote. “What was the point? So we could both feel bad?” She turned to prostitution to help her
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