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Johnson, Yvette, author.
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Wright, Booker.
Johnson, Yvette -- Family.
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Greenwood -- Biography.
Murder victims -- Mississippi -- Greenwood -- Biography.
Racism -- Mississippi -- Greenwood -- History -- 20th century.
Greenwood (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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The song and the sil...
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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 / Yvette Johnson.
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Johnson, Yvette, author.
New York, NY : Atria Books, 2017.
Subjects
Wright, Booker.
Johnson, Yvette -- Family.
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Greenwood -- Biography.
Murder victims -- Mississippi -- Greenwood -- Biography.
Racism -- Mississippi -- Greenwood -- History -- 20th century.
Greenwood (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781476754949 :
1476754942
Description:
xx, 315 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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 class -- Part IV. Some sort of charm -- A magical town -- A not-so magical town -- Making a movement -- Part V. The delta -- From the cotton fields to the football fields -- Fever -- Town on fire -- A self-portrait -- Part VI. Mothers -- A crack in the world -- A specific kind of pain -- A history lesson -- Part VII. The river's Eden -- A place to descend to -- Descendants of master and slave -- Booker's place -- Deconstructing a racist -- Part VIII. A twisted strand -- Quiet years -- A murder story -- Greenwood -- Part IX. Inheritance -- Booker's song -- Remembering.
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"In this...memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to the Mississippi Delta to uncover the true story of her later grandfather, whose extraordinary act of courage changed both their live. "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 effect from his remarks would cement Booker as a civil rights icon because he did the unthinkable: before a national audience, Wright described what life truly was like for the black people of Greenwood, Mississippi"--Dust jacket.
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Hawaii State Library
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