Being "good" in America is hard enough. Being good in the Civil Rights Era, when you're not a saint but rather a regular African American human is the challenge at the heart of a new play by Tracey Scott Wilson.

 The Good Negro is set in 1963 Alabama, in a town like Birmingham. It tells a partly familiar story - of civil rights heroes and villains caught in the deadly tinderbox of US apartheid as it crumbled. But it tells the less known parts of the story too: the not very heroic side of some heroes and the pretty defiant side of some of the so-called "victims."