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 Performing Arts Dance Theater Social Science Cultural & Ethnic Studies - African Studies For every parent tired of

For every parent tired of telling their kids to PLEASE JUST GET ALONG

they'll experience a sense of accomplishment through exciting adventures and newfound discoveries

and hopefully to fix a certain frozen friendship along the way

" -Kirkus Reviews

who has left his parents' home to live with his older brother

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 Performing Arts Dance Theater Social Science Cultural & Ethnic Studies - African Studies For every parent tired ofIn this beautiful, evocative (Booklist, starred review) memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to the Mississippi Delta to uncover the moving, true story of her late grandfather Booker Wright, whose extraordinary act of courage would change his and, later, her life forever. Have to keep that smile, Booker Wright said in the 1966 NBC documentary Mississippi: A Self Portrait . At the time, Wright was a waiter in a whites only restaurant and a local business