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 | 
pickThe author, daughter of a pro football player, grew up wealthy and privileged, and rarely thought about racial issues, tho‘ she is black. Then she learned about her black grandfather who in the 1960‘s was a catalyst for the civil rts. movement in Greenwood, Miss.
I learned a lot, and considered questions I‘d never thought about as I followed the author on her quest to explore her grandpa‘s life, & to confront racial issues still with us.
A granddaughter‘s story of her grandfather‘s contributions to improving race relations in Mississippi in the 1960s. Let‘s go.
Fascinating
Congrats @Cathythoughts and thank you for having a giveaway! 🎉🎉 The tagged book was the last physical book I completed. (Taking a year & day to get thru Luminaries! 😆) I sped thru this after watching the documentary about the murder of her grandfather, hoping for more clues about the killer & motive. It didn‘t provide that, but it did flesh out the people involved and times. #onebookoneword
Discovered the book at the library, but then also found online the documentary the author participated in before writing the memoir. Seems an unusual sequence. Anyway, I‘m going to watch the film this afternoon bc that‘s what I have the energy for. 😏
First book finished in 2018! I highly recommend this mix of memoir, biography, and sociological tract about the author‘s attempt to understand the life and death of her maternal grandfather, a successful black man murdered in segregation-era Mississippi. Powerful. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #OwnVoices #DiverseReads #CivilRights #LitsyAtoZ #LetterJ
Started reading 'The Song and the Silence' - A NF Memoir about Yvette Johnson's grandfather, Booker Wright. While this is ostensibly about the impact a 3-minute presentation that Booker made for an NBC documentary in 1966, it's also a look at Greenwood, MS - a deeply racist community that embodied the ugliest aspects of The Civil Rights Movement. 'Booker's Place' is the companion documentary to the book (Image: Detail from the DVD cover)
