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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Yvette Johnson
Simon & Schuster

Yvette Johnson travels to the Mississippi Delta to uncover the true story of her late grandfather Booker Wright, a waiter in a “whites only” restaurant and a local business owner who would become an unwitting icon of the Civil Rights Movement.

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