In the fall of 2022, members of the Booker T. Spicely Committee reached out to America’s Hallowed Ground co-director and playwright Mike Wiley and commissioned him to create a play revolving around the murder of Booker T. Spicely. That work, co-written with fellow North Carolina playwright Howard Craft, is currently underway. The first public reading of the play occurred July 7, 2024 at Durham’s NorthStar Church of the Arts – one day before the 80th anniversary of Spicely’s killing. It will premiere fully staged in November of 2024. 

Moving forward, the work will be included in Wiley’s touring repertoire and be performed throughout the country.