greenwood (miss.)

"It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe"--From publisher's description.

The granddaughter of Booker Wright, Yvette Johnson, shares her personal story of discovery as she researched the legacy her grandfather left behind through his determination of spirit in the Mississippi Delta during the Civil Rights movement of the sixties.

"It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe"--From publisher's description.

The daughter of a poor black Mississippi sharecropper shares her remembrances of coming of age at the height of the civil rights struggle.

The author discusses the different stages of her life, beginning with her childhood in the segregated Deep South in the 1940s, and tells of her criminal activities, her involvement with the Civil Rights Movement, and her eventual pursuit of a Ph.D.

A history of the early civil rights movement in the South. Includes interviews with movement participants.