The Resource 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, Yvette Johnson
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, Yvette Johnson
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The item 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, Yvette Johnson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
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- Summary
- "Told with powerful insights and harrowing details of civil rightsђ́أera Mississippi, The Song and the Silence is an astonishing chronicle of one womanђ́ةs passionate pursuit of her own familyђ́ةs past. In the stories of those who came before, she finds not only a new understanding of herself, but a hopeful vision of the future for all of us." --
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xx, 315 pages
- Contents
-
- Part I. Places in time
- Where he was king
- Scattered
- A yellow gal
- Part II. Family
- Black is beautiful
- Coming to terms
- "Get off this place"
- Part III. Surface of the deep
- Colorless
- A catalyst
- A place for the planter class
- Part IV. Some sort of charm
- A magical town
- A not-so magical town
- Making a movement
- Part V. The delta
- From the cotton fields to the football fields
- Fever
- Town on fire
- A self-portrait
- Part VI. Mothers
- A crack in the world
- A specific kind of pain
- A history lesson
- Part VII. The river's Eden
- A place to descend to
- Descendants of master and slave
- Booker's place
- Deconstructing a racist
- Part VIII. A twisted strand
- Quiet years
- A murder story
- Greenwood
- Part IX. Inheritance
- Booker's song
- Remembering
- Isbn
- 9781476754949
- Label
- 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
- Title
- The song and the silence
- Title remainder
- a story about family, race, and what was revealed in a small town in the Mississippi Delta while searching for Booker Wright
- Statement of responsibility
- Yvette Johnson
- Subject
-
- Biographies
- Greenwood (Miss.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Johnson, Yvette -- Family
- Murder victims -- Mississippi | Greenwood -- Biography
- African Americans -- Mississippi | Greenwood -- Biography
- Wright, Booker
- Racism -- Mississippi | Greenwood -- History -- 20th century
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Told with powerful insights and harrowing details of civil rightsђ́أera Mississippi, The Song and the Silence is an astonishing chronicle of one womanђ́ةs passionate pursuit of her own familyђ́ةs past. In the stories of those who came before, she finds not only a new understanding of herself, but a hopeful vision of the future for all of us." --
- Assigning source
- from Amazon
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Johnson, Yvette
- Dewey number
- 305.896/073076246
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Wright, Booker
- Johnson, Yvette
- African Americans
- Murder victims
- Racism
- Greenwood (Miss.)
- Label
- 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, Yvette Johnson
- Contents
- Part I. Places in time -- Where he was king -- Scattered -- A yellow gal -- Part II. Family -- Black is beautiful -- Coming to terms -- "Get off this place" -- Part III. Surface of the deep -- Colorless -- A catalyst -- A place for the planter class -- Part IV. Some sort of charm -- A magical town -- A not-so magical town -- Making a movement -- Part V. The delta -- From the cotton fields to the football fields -- Fever -- Town on fire -- A self-portrait -- Part VI. Mothers -- A crack in the world -- A specific kind of pain -- A history lesson -- Part VII. The river's Eden -- A place to descend to -- Descendants of master and slave -- Booker's place -- Deconstructing a racist -- Part VIII. A twisted strand -- Quiet years -- A murder story -- Greenwood -- Part IX. Inheritance -- Booker's song -- Remembering
- Control code
- sky286573062
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xx, 315 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476754949
- Lccn
- 2016055229
- Label
- 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, Yvette Johnson
- Contents
- Part I. Places in time -- Where he was king -- Scattered -- A yellow gal -- Part II. Family -- Black is beautiful -- Coming to terms -- "Get off this place" -- Part III. Surface of the deep -- Colorless -- A catalyst -- A place for the planter class -- Part IV. Some sort of charm -- A magical town -- A not-so magical town -- Making a movement -- Part V. The delta -- From the cotton fields to the football fields -- Fever -- Town on fire -- A self-portrait -- Part VI. Mothers -- A crack in the world -- A specific kind of pain -- A history lesson -- Part VII. The river's Eden -- A place to descend to -- Descendants of master and slave -- Booker's place -- Deconstructing a racist -- Part VIII. A twisted strand -- Quiet years -- A murder story -- Greenwood -- Part IX. Inheritance -- Booker's song -- Remembering
- Control code
- sky286573062
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xx, 315 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476754949
- Lccn
- 2016055229
Subject
- Biographies
- Greenwood (Miss.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Johnson, Yvette -- Family
- Murder victims -- Mississippi | Greenwood -- Biography
- African Americans -- Mississippi | Greenwood -- Biography
- Wright, Booker
- Racism -- Mississippi | Greenwood -- History -- 20th century
- Autobiographies
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