THE WASH 
by Kelundra Smith
Directed by Tasia A. Jones

April 2026

In 1881, Black laundresses in Atlanta led a strike weeks before the International Cotton Exposition came to town. Demanding $1/dozen pounds of laundry, the Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike of 1881 was the first successful interracial, organized labor strike of the post-Civil War era. The Wash offers an intimate and often funny look at ordinary women who went from workers to fighters– and won.​