Item details: The song and the silence : a story about family, race, and what was revealed in a small town in the Mississippi Delta while searching for Booker Wright - 48122099

The song and the silence : a story about family, race, and what was revealed in a small town in the Mississippi Delta while searching for Booker Wright

text The song and the silence : a story about family, race, and what was revealed in a small town in the Mississippi Delta while searching for Booker Wright

Johnson, Yvette

Summary: 'Have to keep that smile,' Booker Wright said in the 1966 NBC documentary Mississippi: A Self-Portrait. At the time, Wright spent his evenings waiting tables for whites at a local restaurant and his mornings running his own business. The ripple ef... Read more

Contents: Part I. Places in time -- Where he was king -- Scattered -- A yellow gal -- Part II. Family -- Black is beautiful -- Coming to terms -- "Get off this place" -- Part III. Surface of the deep -- Colorless -- A catalyst -- A place for the planter cla... Read more

Format: text

Description: xx, 315 pages ; 24 cm

Publisher: Atria Books 2017

Library	Location	Status
Woodmere (Main Branch)	921 JOHNSON, YVETTE JOH in Adult Non-fiction	Available

Library	Location	Status
TADL-WOOD	921 JOHNSON, YVETTE JOH in Adult Non-fiction	Available

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