Driving Miss Daisy
Two Outsiders in the South, Before, During and after Civil Rights.
Driving Miss Daisy, originally a Pulitzer Prize winning stage-play by Alfred Uhry, recounts the 25-year relationship ( from 1948-1973) between two outsiders in the South, specifically Atlanta. Boolie, the son of Miss Daisy, insists on hiring a chauffeur for his uninsurable accident prone mother, a wealthy Jewish wide. The chauffeur Hoke is an an amiable, astute African American widower with young grandchildren. But the decision to hire Hoke is over Miss Daisy’s metaphorical dead body.





