"Searching for Booker Wright": A Conversation with Yvette Johnson
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Guest speaker Yvette Johnson graduated from Northern Arizona University where she started The Booker Wright Project. In it, she researches the complicated life her grandfather lived in Greenwood, Miss., where he was a waiter in a "whites only" steakhouse as well as owner of a restaurant on the "black" side of town. Yvette Johnson is co-producer of "Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story" and the author of "Searching for Booker Wright." This event is sponsored with the UAA Sociology Department.
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