Yvette Johnson
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1966 Frank De Felitta made a documentary for NBC News about racism in the American South called "Mississippi: a self portrait". In this documentary, Booker Wright, an African American restaurant owner who also served double-duty as a waiter in a 'whites-only' restaurant in Mississippi, spoke openly about his experiences with racism and his treatment as a waiter serving the white community. Wright's appearance in the film set off a chain of events...