Starting the Conversation: Adult Nonfiction

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1. 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

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Johnson, Yvette
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"'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"--Amazon.com....